PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter #7: Eleanor Rosch

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

Document Summary

Original place of publication: n/a: questions addressed in original study: (list the 2 5 most important questions addressed in the original study) Do concepts and categories differ depending upon the culture and language a person is a part of: findings of original study: (list the 2 5 most important findings of the original study) What people perceive is automatically categorized in your brain to match with a prototype. If people are conditioned or programmed to perceive categories of colors, then they will learn the focal colors more rapidly than the nonfocal colors. Focal colors are better prototypes for understanding color. Certain concepts, like colors, exist in the brain whether or not the language/culture has used these concepts. These concepts are part of the biological structure of humans: extensions of original study (list the 2 5 most important advances made by subsequent research in this area)