8.1 The Organization of Knowledge

Question 1

Concept

Answer 1

the mental representation of an object, event or idea

Question 2

Categories

Answer 2

Clusters of interrelated concepts

Question 3

Rule-based categorization

Answer 3

categorizing objects or events according to a certain set of rules or by a specific set of features

Question 4

Graded membership

Answer 4

the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others

Question 5

Exemplar

Answer 5

a specific example that best represents a category

Question 6

Prototype

Answer 6

a mental representation of an average category member

Question 7

Semantic network

Answer 7

an interconnected set of nodes (or concepts) and the links that join them to form a category

Question 8

Linguistic relativity

Answer 8

the theory that the language we use determines how we understand the world

Question 9

Category-specific visual agnosia

Answer 9

Disorder in which damage to certain parts of the brain impairs the ability to recognize some categories while leaving others unaffected