COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Combustibility And Flammability
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A central and basic ability, the basic cognitive process: many things depend on this ability. The ability to abstract useful and relative information. Coding of experience: without this ability, it would take forever to do anything because you have to learn it all over again. Engage in inductive inferences: drawing conclusions to the most of the members in a category. Many/ most words are categorical in nature (dogs, fire etc. ) We trust the inductive power of categorization much more than our knowledge categorization expands our cognitive function. We notice things that are similar -> we notice things that are dissimilar -> group together the similar things, leave out the other (smith, ch. 1) Sesame street: "kinda"" the same things share partial identity (similar) (goodman) we are converting what we find that are similar, any two things have infinite number of similarities and dissimilarities. [example: things that you worry about when there is a fire]
