PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Problem Solving, Belief Perseverance, List Of Major League Baseball Career Total Bases Leaders

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Launa C.Leboe- Mcgowan

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For the same reason libraries and bookstores organize books according to similarity. Much simpler, we do this in everyday life as well. Our minds may also organize everything we know about the world according to similarity. This sort of organized network of knowledge would represent a tiny piece of what we know. Grouping by similarity helps simplify things and gives us short-cuts when we encounter unfamiliar examples. You do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e to (cid:396)e-learn whenever you see a new different type of dog, it cuts down the work we have to do mentally. Concepts: mental representations of specific objects, events, or ideas (like different types of desserts) Categories: larger groups of concepts based on their similarity to one another, eg. Categories of cups, so that we can treat varieties of things, like cups, in a similar way. We group together objects and events into categories because they share common defining features: determines whether something is in a certain group.