BIOCH498 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Temporal Lobe, Hemispatial Neglect, Steven Pinker
13 Jun 2015
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Concept - mental representation of groups/classes of things. Abstract things crappy meals eaten throughout our lifetime. Can be real or imaginary things fairies or unicorns. Take note of feature of the object (i. e. chair) Put objects into groups based on their features. Don"t know what it really is don"t know how to interact with it. Can predict how we should behave towards something. Identification allow us to know what something is when we see it. Glue that connects present experience with the past. Organizing information we want help us remember. Category - real world groups of things themselves. Objects in the same category all have something in common. Basic level depends on expertise (i. e. dog expert) Identify features and see if it corresponds to anything we know. You"re either in or you"re out of that category. Fuzziness - categories are not rigid, have soft boundaries. No clear point to what is a cat or not a cat.
