PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Semantic Network, Representativeness Heuristic, Linguistic Relativity

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Says the mind is like software running on a computer. The mind is composed of a general purpose info processor. Mental representation of an object, event, or idea. Classical categorization 315 theory that says objects or events are categorized according to a certain set of rules or by a specific set of features, earliest study, based on a set of rules or characteristics. Ex) categorizing a set of figures if they are a triangle (3 straight sides) or not a triangle. Observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others, more modern, based on a set of rules or characteristics. Ex) a sparrow is more bird-like than a penguin. Mental representations of an average category member, allows for classification by resemblance, based on a resemblance comparison. Explain why some category members make better examples than others, ex) ostriches are birds but blue jays are closer to the prototypical bird.