7 Rosch

Question 1

As a Category, It’s a Natural Year

Answer 1

1973

Question 2

As a Category, It’s a Natural Author

Answer 2

Rosch

Question 3

As a Category, It’s a Natural Background/Theory (4 things)

Answer 3

(1) Concepts are mental representations that allow you to classify things according to the characteristics they have in common.
(2) Before Rosch, people thought first we develop language then concepts.
(3) Rosch thought that had innate concepts.
(4) Rosch also theorized we had prototypes - ideal representations of a category.

Question 4

As a Category, It’s a Natural Method (3 things)

Answer 4

(1) Rosh studies the Dani people, who did not have words for specific colors.
(2) She divided the Dani participants into two groups to teach them about colors: Focal Colors (red, blue, green, etc.) and Nonfocal colors (yellow-green, blue-green, etc).
(3) Participants in the focal color groups made fewer errors than the nonfocal group.
(4) Participants in the nonfocal group got angry and wanted to quit.

Question 5

As a Category, It’s a Natural Significance (2 things)

Answer 5

(1) The main finding was that people from a culture that did not possess concepts for colors could learn colors that comprised hypothesized prototypes faster than nonprototype colors.
(2) This finding indicated that certain concepts exist in the brains of all humans regardless of the language they speak or whether they have ever used the concepts.

Question 6

As a Category, It’s a Natural Legacy (3 things)

Answer 6

(1) Research: participants rate German Shepards as more prototypical dogs than french bulldogs.
(2) Research: Participants can categorize some things (chairs) as furniture faster than other things (bean bags?).
(3) Research: When asked to draw emotional faces, participants draw happy and sad faces well before rage or confusion faces.