Categories And Concepts Flashcards
Classification
Treating non-identical items in a similar way
Understanding
Being able to understand our surroundings
Prediction
Using current experience to predict future events
Communication
Using specific words to describe ideas efficiently
Illusion of the expert
Feeling that something must be easy because your good at it
Prototype theory
Categorize our current experience by comparing to average representations of various categories
Can’t explain why internal representations change over time
Exemplar theory
Experiences are stored and used to categorize our current experiences
Basic level of categorization
Easy and quick judgements
Superordinate
Higher level of basic levels
High chance for accuracy
Low predictive power
Subordinate
Most specific
Lower chance for accuracy
High predictive power
Living and non living things
It takes longer to categorize things that don’t move like plants and living
Alfonso caramazza
found that living and non living things activate separate parts of the brain and that it is innate
