Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Linear Separability, Central Tendency, Google Images

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Generally understand the world of objects, things, and events categorization and knowledge: organize the sensory world into meaningful, useable mental structures. The role of concepts on other thinking behaviours: Sensory world structure organized in memory behaviour, problem-solving, induction, planning, understanding. Category: objects, things, or events in the outside world that can be structured into groups: groupings of things that exist outside the mind. Categories allow people to make quick and usually accurate judgments. Why do people categorize things: to reflect the natural structure of the world i. e. natural distinction between cat and dog, to achieve goals, stimulus generalization present in all species. Means an organism can extend a learned behavioural response to a whole class of stimuli. Behavioural equivalence class: even though a group or class of things may be different and many in number, we behave towards them in the same way: ex. Cat knows the sound of a can of food being opened.