Ch. 9. Concepts & Imagery Flashcards
What is the name given to the mental representation of sensory properties of objects?
Imagery
Which theory proposes that categories are represented purely by stored examples or instances and that each example is linked to the category name?
Exemplar
What is the view that all members of a given category share some key property?
Essentialism
What kinds of representations are abstract and do not involve any sensory codes?
Amodal representation
In studies of object recognition, which concept is an ideal example that best represents a category?
Prototype
What kind of processing would you most likely to be using if you were thinking about re-designing the furniture in your lounge?
Visuo-spatial processing
What is the partial repetition of the internal processes involved in previous perceptions of actions through simulation?
Re-enactment
Which types of representations involve sensory-motor codes?
Grounded representations
In concept formation, what is formed of items that meet a given goal?
Ad hoc categories
What is described as the tendency for members of a category to be similar to each other without having any one characteristic in common with all of them?
Family resemblance
What kinds of concepts might not have prototypes?
Abstract ones
What research paradigm was studied by Shepard and Metzler (1971)?
Mental rotation
What are mental representations of classes of items such as ‘cats’, ‘dogs’, ‘chairs’, or ‘even numbers’?
Concepts
Which categories are formed of items that are highly similar and at an intermediate level in a concept hierarchy?
Basic level categories
What did Warrington and Shallice propose in 1984?
Sensory-functional distinction
Assosiert med Temporal lobe damage, or fronto-parietal damage
