PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Prototype Theory, Greater Omentum, Habituation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Tanya Broesch

Document Summary

General ideas or understandings that can be used to group together objects, events, qualities, or abstractions that are similar in some way o o. Allow us to make predictions about what to expect from individual entities that we have never seen before. *how we groups things together depends on a lot of stuff. Psychological grouping enables us to divide up our experiences to help us navigate through the world. How do we develop concepts of o o o o o o. Empiricists - concepts are learned, but learning mechanisms are innate (e. g. rakison) Perceptual categorization - grouping together objects that have similar appearances. Category hierarchies --> superordinate (general) level - basic level (in between) - subordinate (specific) o. Babies typically form categories at the basic level (tree) before they form general categories (plants) or specific (oak). Parents use basic level categories as a foundation. Main idea: we show babies stuff and measure the amount of looking.