PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Folk Taxonomy, Implicit Learning, Unconscious Cognition
17 Feb 2014
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This chapter examines the nature of concepts and how we acquire and use them. They are used by individuals to categorize events or objects, and each concept has attributes by which they are classi- fied. There are many ways that attributes can be used to form concepts, including a conjunctive, dis- junctive, and relational. A criterial attribute, for instance, is a prerequisite to being part of a particu- lar concept. Both selection and reception tasks can be used to study concepts. In selection tasks, where par- ticipants select the instances, individuals generally use conservative focusing in order to determine what the particular concept is. However, this is not the only strategy that can be applied. Participants can also make use of focus gambling, simultaneous scanning, and successive scanning. How- ever, in reception tasks, where the experimenter is in control of the order of presentation, partici- pants use two different strategies: wholist or partist.
