PSC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Confabulation, Childhood Amnesia, Deductive Reasoning
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Symbolic abstract mental representations that do not correspond to the physical features of objects of ideas. Ex: the word cat : concepts a category, or class, that includes subtypes and/or individual items, concepts allows us to group things based on shared properties. Provides cognitive shortcuts: defining an attribute model, category is characterized by a list of features that determine if an object is a member. Ex: defining attributes of cats small, furry, evil. Prototype model within each category, there is a best example. Lots of flexibility in representations of concepts: exemplar model no single representation; all members of a category are examples. Together they form the concept and determine category membership. Ex: a = b, b = c; therefore a = c. Fluffy is a cat, so fluffy is evil. Inductive reasoning using specific instances to draw conclusions about general rules: drawing conclusions for a large population based on a small sample. Ex: my cat is small, fuzzy, and evil.
