PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Concept Learning, Stim, Kin Recognition
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Categorization: the cognitive process of classifying items or events into groups based on one or more common features. Discrimination: distinguishing items or events based on one or more distinct features. Concepts: the abstract set of rules that define membership in a category, or the mental criteria which allow stimuli, events, or ideas to be grouped together. Concept formation: cognitive process of establishing and updating the abstract set of rules for category membership: because it is experience dependent. **distinction between categories and concepts: concepts involve mental representation of group attributes that do not depend on immediate interactions with the environment. Stereotypes for example: categories help individuals predict non-evident from evident properties and make judgements about events in the environment. Perceptual categorization: using sensory input in one modality to identify similarities between different stimuli and group them together accordingly. Perceptual discrimination: using sensory information to distinguish between items.
