PSY270H5 Lecture 6: PSY270 Lec 6 .docx
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When lisa was on her way back from the store with the balloon, she fell and the balloon floated away : people always think that lisa is 12; the balloon is always red; and the balloon is filled with helium because it floated away, all of our information is very interconnected, the three pictures she showed us were all dogs but they are all very different looking; so then how do we know that they are all dogs, knowledge is divided into categories; groups of objects that belong together and have something in common, category and concept are often used interchangeably; but to be specific a concept is actually the mental representation of a category, categories are defined by a list of necessary and significant features needs to have certain features and those features are enough for belonging to that category.