PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.1-8.2: Mental Representation, Confirmation Bias, September 11 Attacks
6 Mar 2017
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Concept: mental representation of an object, event, or idea. Categories: clusters of interrelated concepts: you will have more than one concept of a chair, but you might group a chair into a furniture category. Classical categorization: theory claims that objects or events are categorized according to a certain set of rules or by a specific set of features: ex. definition in a dictionary. Graded membership: observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others: comparing a sparrow, to a penguin, to an apple. Prototypes: mental representations of an average category member: ex. Picturing a specific bird when someone tells you to think of a bird. Semantic network: interconnected set of nodes (or concepts) and the links that join them to form a category. Linguistic relativity (whorfian hypothesis): theory that the language we use determines how we understand the world. Module 8. 2: problem solving, judgement, and decision making.
