PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: General Idea

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 304
• Professor: Kristine Onishi

Document Summary

You compare its features to other triangles and find characteristics in common. You know that triangles are shapes with 3 sides (limits), 3 corners, and straight edges. Your concept of a triangle can be modified to a certain extent before you start to see it as a different shape (a wobbly triangle) If it has the function of a chair. You can modify it to a certain extent before you being to see it as something else (e. g. , is a stool a chair?) A chair is only for a single person rather than a sofa, which is for several people. It resembles the prototype of a chair seat, back, 4 legs. It simplifies the task of labeling things, which makes it easier on working memory and cognitive energy. To store a prototype of a certain concept and make a model of these concepts in order to help us predict what a novel stimulus of that concept would look like.