ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Boundary 2, Diet Food, Tabula Rasa
26 Oct 2020
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Colour field painting: people sitting in front of these pictures can experience some emotions concept: large colour patches, warm hues, abstract expressionism, action painting. Concept formation: abstraction of feature set concept learning applying concept. Conceptual behaviour 4 cognitive processes: becoming symbolically familiar with a concept, forming the underlying mental representation of a concept, selecting: what concept fits current situation, distinguishing between different concept. Mental representation of set of objects (1) category: 1. Theoretical class of objects, tied to group of objects in the world (sparrow 1, sparrow 2, robin 1, owl 1 etc. Mental representation of (1), cf. concept (bird = sparrpw 1, sparrow 2 etc. ) Classification system, based on convention or decision rules (definition of bird) *category is represented by a series of necessary and sufficient features. *set of defining features specify category boundary: prototype or probabilistic theories. *category is represented by a series of characteristic features.
