PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Central Tendency, Bean Bag, Eleanor Rosch

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Daniel Levitin

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Under what circumstances (cid:2) do we attend to global vs. specific (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) Categories are created by defining properties e. g. : a triangle is a 3 sided closed figure the sum of whose interior angles equals 180 degrees. Categories based on definitions work for a great many concepts. To get an a in this cours ,it is necessary to take the final. You could take the final and sill not get an a of course. Getting an a on both midterms and the final is sufficient for getting an a in the cours, but (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) But definitions don"t always work well for defining categories. Think of the difficulty in defining intelligence by a list of rules. (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) Some things are better member of a category than others: tables vs. rugs as furniture , apple vs cucumbers as fruits .