Ch. 8 - Thoughts And Language Flashcards
1
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concept (2)
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- mental representation of an object, event, or idea
- divided into smaller groups
2
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categories
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clusters of interrelated concepts
3
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classical categorization (4)
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- early view that objects or events are categorized according to a certain set of rules
- definitions
- cant explain ‘graded membership’
- sentence verification technique
4
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definitions
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membership in a category is all-or-none
5
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prototypes (4)
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- mental representations of an average category
- classification by resemblance
- explains good graded membership
- may resort to rules (classical categorization) in complicated situations
6
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semantic network
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an interconnected set of nodes (or concepts) and the links that join them to form a category
7
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category-specific visual agnosia (CSVA) (4)
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- inability to identify certain categories
- living vs non living categories
- domain-specific hypothesis
- individual differences in effects of brain damage
8
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linguistic relativity (Whorfian hypothesis) (2)
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- theory that the language we encounter and use determines/influences how we understand the world
- categorical perception
9
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categorical perception
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faster or more accurate discrimination of stimuli that straddle a category boundary
10
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universalist view
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common repertoire of though and perception that then influences all languages
