PSYC 2230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Motor Cortex, Mirror Neuron, Artificial Neural Network
19 Dec 2017
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Conceptual knowledge- knowledge that enables us to recognize objects and events and to make inferences about their properties. Family resemblance approach- things in a particular category resemble one another in a number of ways, allowing for some variation within a category. Categorization is based on determining how similar an object is to some standard representation of a category. Exemplar approach- determining whether an objects is similar to other objects based on the standard, which involves many examples. In early learning we would be poor at taking into account exceptions to a category, but later, exemplars for these cases would be added to the category. Hierarichal organization- more general categories are divided into more speci c (smaller) categories, creating a number of levels of categories. Global level (superordinate level), basic level, speci c level (subordinate level: as you move further down the hierarichal organization (more speci c), the number of common features increases (gain information)
