PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Embodied Cognition, Folk Taxonomy
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Embodied cognition: the role of cognition is to facilitate successful interaction with the environment. Goal-derived category: a category invented for a specific purpose on a particular occasion. Barsalou suggested that the important determinant of this category is how relevant the item is to the goal that the category serves. Understanding how concepts are formed means studying the skills that enable us to construct temporary categories these skills are rooted in perceptual experience. Basalou suggests that perception and concept formation also have much in common: perception delivers schematic instances of particular categories. Simulator the ability to re-experience perceptual memories when knowledge of a particular category is distributed across all senses. Category-specific deficits: selective deficits in knowledge, resulting from brain damage. Primary metaphor: a pairing of subjective experience with sensorimotor experience. Double-function words: words that refer to both physical and psychological properties (e. g. , warmth: warmth can be used to describe temperature (physical) and can be paired with properties of people.
