PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Windsor Chair, Exemplar Theory, Prototype Theory
1 Nov 2016
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Cognitive mechanisms so make sense of the world and take appropriate action. Helps to focus nite mental resources on key parts of the active scene. Helps to recall speci c thoughts and behaviours which are appropriate to your current needs. We quickly process incoming stimuli by organizing them into categories. Without the ability to categorize objects, events and ideas every sensory experience would be completely unique and unconnected to any past events. Classi cation: grouping objects that appear differently as belonging together (red, green and yellow apples are all apples) Understanding: categorizing though the understanding of a situation. Communication: many words refer to some sort of category or concept. Illusion of the expert: the feeling that a task must be simple for everyone because it is simple for oneself. We categorize objects by comparing them to an internal best representation of a given category (ex: picturing fruit might be an apple, picturing a bird might be a robin)
