PSY30400 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 Part 1
Chapter 9: Knowledge
Section 9.1:
• Conceptual Knowledge:
o enables us to recognize things and to make inferences about properties
▪ knowledge exists in concepts
o Concepts:
▪ mental representations of class / individual
• Can organize concepts in categories
o includes all possible examples of particular concept
▪ concepts provide rules
o Categorization:
▪ process by which things are placed in categories
• How are objects placed into categories?
o Definitional Approach to Categorization:
▪ decide if something is a member of a category by determining whether a
particular object meets definition of the category
▪ Definitions work well for certain things, such as geometric objects,
HOWEVER for most natural objects and many human-made objects,
definitions do NOT work well
▪ Problem= not all members of everyday categories have same features
▪ Wittgenstein proposed idea of family resemblance to deal with problem
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