PSY 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Prototype Theory, Roomba, Visual Concepts
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Theory-theory view of concepts: even combining prototype and classical definitions misses something, many categories may not be defined by being perceptually similar, so how would a prototype view even work, goal defined categories. The first things you"d take out of your house in the event of a fire . Birthday gifts that would make my wife happy : the correlation between family resemblance and category membership is basically 0 for goal-defined categories (barsalou, 1985, prototype theory has difficulty handling goal-derived categories. Concepts as a network: theory theory - concepts are defined by the role they play in a whole network of concepts. If loop was missing, hunting group said it was not a tuk, but fertilizing group thought it was still a tuk . An equivalent would be to listen to something very hard: to notice: to see something that comes into your view. But not only see it but to perceive it and understand it.
