Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Solomon Shereshevsky, Prototype Theory, Knowledge Network

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Eriko Matsuki

Document Summary

Solomon shereshevsky: remembers everything, but too distracted by detail of his own recollections that it was difficult to think in abstract terms, particularized knowledge vs general knowledge. Understanding concept: definitions: what is a dog, single terms we use every day actually don"t have definitions, game: hide and seek game vs. olympic game vs. card games vs. golf, exception to every concept. Focus on attributes that are believed to be essential for each category (biological inheritance, circumstances of printing: prototype and exemplar views both depend on judgements of resemblance, resemblance depends on shared important, essential properties. Inferotemporal region: difficulty naming animals and people, but good at naming tools. Lateral occipital region: difficulty naming tools: abstract conceptual knowledge is intertwined with knowledge about what particular objects look like and also with knowledge about how one might interact with object. The knowledge network: traveling through the network to retrieve knowledge, associative links represent knowledge, hierarchal semantic network, sentence verification task.