Categorization

Question 1

What are the functions of categorization?

Answer 1

Organizes and relates classes
Reduces complexity of an environment

Question 2

What were Wittengen’s views on the classical view of categorization?

Answer 2

That it’s not how most everyday categories are organized.

Question 3

What did Wittengen believe was the way that people categorize?

Answer 3

Through family resemblance

Question 4

What is family resemblance?

Answer 4

an object or person is considered part of a category because of the similar features it has with the other things within a category.

Question 5

What does the classical view say about categorization?

Answer 5

Category membership is defined by a set of necessary and jointly sufficient conditions.

Question 6

What are the theories of categorization?

Answer 6

Family resemblance
The Classical View

Question 7

What are the traditional models of categorization?

Answer 7

Exemplar model
Prototype model

Question 8

What does the prototype model say about categorization?

Answer 8

We classify objects by comparing them to a prototype

Question 9

What does the exemplar model say about categorization?

Answer 9

We search through memory until we find a very similar example and then place the item into the same category as the remembered example.

Question 10

What are “ad hoc” categories?

Answer 10

Categories of items that do not have a high degree of similarity to each other but serve some common purpose or goal.