PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Numbers Game, Stereotype, Exemplar Theory
11 Mar 2017
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Checking your phone, you read an email about an upcoming project. At this point, you notice that somewhere on the bus, there is an odd, but familiar odour. Your interactions with the world are ooded with colours, shapes textures, smells, tastes, and sounds, and yet you are still able to make sense of it all and take appropriate action. However, attention and memory are just part of the story. In each if the examples mentioned, your cognitive ability to put people, objects, and ideas into categories and concepts helps you to ef ciently process through the incoming data and make appropriate responses. Psychologists have de ned food basic functions of categorization. First, classi cation allows you to treat objects that appear differently as belonging together. Green apples, read apples, and yellow apples can appear different on a colour dimension, but by classifying them all as apples you can treat them similarly and assume that they are safe to eat.
