PSY 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Inferiority Complex, Social Loafing, The Repository
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Theories and personal understanding (this fair game sheet was made with a combination of 3 different fair game sheets, the textbook, 2 different lecture notes, and various online sources. If you memorize this, and you still fail, you"re retarded. ) Geons are simple 3-d forms such as spheres, cubes, cylinders, and wedges. Biederman proposed that geons serve as the basic building blocks of all things we recognize. In other words, we recognize objects by first recognizing their component geons. Esher), figures that we cannot solve because the geons do not make sense. A prototype is used as a means of categorization, in which people group by familiar and typical examples (p 281). We decide whether an object belongs to a category by determining how well it resembles to prototypes. People automatically organize items into hierarchy depending on how much they fit our perception of the category (i. e. an apple is more of a fruit than a grape)
