2- The Need for Mental Concepts and Categorisation Flashcards

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What couldn’t we do if we treated every object as fully unique?

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Make predictions about behaviour based on past experience

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What can you do once you have a representation?

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You have some materials to work with in your mind to try and link different world events

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How does a representation help our behaviour?

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Something inside the mind knows what to expect

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What are representations?

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Mental structures or symbols that stand for objects and events

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What can we use representations to do?

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Make inferences

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What does the re mean in representations?

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Presented again

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What are concepts?

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Mental representations of categories that group together objects, events, or ideas with similar characteristics

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Why are concepts the building block of semantic knowledge?

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Once you have concepts, you can start to link categories

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Why are representations important in language?

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Language is essentially putting representations into a form of words to communicate with each other

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How are concepts manipulated in our mind?

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In a way corresponding to the link between external states

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How are concepts and categories the basis of a lot of things?

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They allow us to interpret the situation and in future decide on how to act

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