Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Equivalence Class, Tylenol (Brand), Google Images

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Concepts: what"s the first thing that comes to mind: pain relief, cold/flue, headache positive concepts. One way to organize sensory world into meaningful, usable mental structures. Assumes we have sensory world things in world around us. In order to do something with them have structured organization in memory (pattern of activation that has meaning to it: assign things into concepts by giving them names, use this to solve problems, and make predictions. Structure of objects and similarity among objects influence how they are represented in the mind. The group of things that is represented in the concept. Mental representations that represents the grouping of things. Keeps track of the features and objects being put in the category. Why categorize: to reflect the natural structure of the world, i. e. natural distinction between cat and dog, to achieve goals. Anything that has some degree of intelligent behavior will categorize. All intelligent systems categorize information: efficiency learning would be impossible without categories.