PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Implicit Learning, Unconscious Cognition, Ipad
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Case study: steve jobs introduces new products and suprises such as the new ipad. But people have different ways of conceiving what an ipad is= is it a laptop, tablet, something to play games with. That"s what this chapter is about, how to acquire new concepts. The classical approach: publication of the book study of thinking (bruner, goodnow, austin). We sort events into categories (concepts), textbook= concept of book. It shares the same attributes with members in the same categories (book has pages, a cover etc). Attributes= can have diff values= print can be large or small, cover can be hard or soft. disjunctive concepts: one in which class membership is defined by one of two or more sets of attributes. Ex: three ways of acquiring canadian citizenship= born in canada, born abroad by canadian parent, becoming naturalized citizen. Conjunctive concept: one that is just simply conjunctions of attributes.
