categories and concepts

Question 1

Three basic foundations of categorization

Answer 1

Classification, understanding, and communication

Question 2

Classification

Answer 2

The ability to classify dissimilar objects together in the same group. Example classifying red, green and yellow apple. Dissimilar in colour but they are all apples

Question 3

Understanding

Answer 3

The ability to evaluate a situation and act properly based on prior experience

Question 4

communication

Answer 4

The ability to describe complex ideas or objects using a single label. For example furniture, cats, sport

Question 5

Illusion of the expert

Answer 5

The feeling that a task must be simple for everyone because it is simple for oneself

Question 6

Protype theory

Answer 6

We categorize objects by comparing them to an internal “best” representation of a given category. Average or best member of a category= prototype; formed through experience
A prototype may not exist in the real world but maybe a hybrid of two different same category things. Prototypes shift constantly

Question 7

Exemplar theory

Answer 7

We categorize objects by comparing them to every previously stored experience (exemplar) in a given category. You remember every dog you have met when you think of a dog

Question 8

concepts

Answer 8

A mental representation of a category

Question 9

Family resemblance

Answer 9

Members of a category share overlapping features

Question 10

Graded membership

Answer 10

The idea that some category members are more representative of a category than others and are closer in degree to the prototype