PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Availability Heuristic, Fast Mapping, Pragmatics

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

Document Summary

Prosopagnosia a relative common disorder where you cannot recognize faces (or objects) also called category specific visual agnosia (csva). Concept is the mental representation of an object, event, or idea. Categories clusters of interrelated concepts (ex. furniture for chair, table, and sofa) Classical categorization this theory claims 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 volunteers wait for a sentence to appear in front of them on a computer screen and respond as fast as they can with yes or no to statements. Prototypes mental representations of an average category member. Semantic network an interconnected set of nodes (or concepts) and the links that join them together to form a category.