PSYCH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Homo Sapiens, Semantic Network, Mental Representation
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Questions from reading: what is cognitive economy, what is a heuristic, what is an algorithm, give two examples of framing not in the book, give an example of functional fixedness not in the book. Odd number is a number that is not divisible by 2. A human being is an organism that is formally called a homo sapien, and is the dominant species across the planet. Category: grouping of things in the real world ex. All the fridges belong the category of fridge. Name refers to one specific thing, regardless of the category it is in. Pluto is still named pluto even if it is not considered a planet anymore: the classical model (defining properties) odd numbers. Necessary conditions: true of all category members (generalizes them) Sufficient conditions: true of only category members (distinguishes them: the prototype model (membership gradient) human. Think of some examples of a category quicker than other examples.
