PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Mirror Neuron, Premotor Cortex
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Psy270: chapter 9 - how are objects placed into. Semantic memory is our memory for facts and knowledge. Categories are pointers to knowledge. once you know something is in a category, you know a lot of general things about it and can focus your energy on specifying what is special about this particular object. Conceptual knowledge: knowledge that enables us to recognize objects and events and to make inferences about their properties. Concepts: mental representation of a class or individual. Category: all possible examples of a particular concept. Categorization: process by which things are placed in categories. The de nitional approach to categorization doesn"t work because most categories contain members that do not conform to the de nition. The philosopher wittgenstein proposed the idea of family resemblances to deal with the fact that de nitions do not include all members of a category. De nitional approach to categorization: if de nition ts, it belongs to the category.
