AUPSY102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Prototype Theory, Connectionism, Knowledge Network

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY102
• Professor: Katharine Bailey

Document Summary

You need concepts in order to have knowledge, and you need knowledge in order to function. For each clause of the definition, we can easily find an exception. Even simple terms, terms denoting concepts we use easily and often, resist being defined. In each case, we can come up with what seems to be a plausible definition, but then it"s easy to find exceptions to it. Family resemblance the notion that members of a category (e. g. , all dogs, all games) resemble one another. In general, family resemblance relies on some number of features being shared by any group of category members, even though all members of the category may not share these features. Therefore, the basis for family resemblance may shift from one subset of the category to another. One way to think about definitions is that they set the boundaries for a category.