PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prosopagnosia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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Prosopagnosia: difficulty recognizing faces, difficulty recognizing objects, but not all objects. Concepts: the mental representation of an object, event or idea, not just one concept per object. Categories: refer to clusters of interrelated concepts, form these groups using categorization. Classical categorization: theory explaining that objects or events are categorized according to a certain set of rules or by a specific set of features. Graded membership: the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others. Sentence verification technique: where volunteers wait for a sentence to appear in front of them on a computer screen and respond as fast as they can with a yes or no answer. (cid:862)best exa(cid:373)ple(cid:863) i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)ce how we categorize items.