Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Equivalence Class, Mental Representation, Central Tendency

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Minda

Document Summary

Categorization and knowledge: organize the sensory world into meaningful structures. Sensory world: proximal and distal stimulus, monocular and binocular cues. Structure organizations: we can use these to solve problems and reason, etc. These are the fundamental mechanisms recruited to bring structure to the sensory world. Group of things that are similar to each other, or share a property or properties (a laptop, coffee mugs) A behavioural equivalence class - a group of different things that treat you similarly. There may not be a single feature in common, but they may have several things that are similar, like a coffee mug having a handle and being roughly the same size. We can still however recognize them all as coffee cups. Internal representation that represents the characteristics of that concept. However, something like this we would fit in the category of coffee mugs, but maybe not in the concept.