Chapter 3

Question 1

Perceptual abilities?

Answer 1

the senses and how they are put together to organize relationships

Question 2

Direct perceptual experience

Answer 2

the ability to form perceptual concepts

Question 3

what is a perceptual concept?

Answer 3

a grouping together of items that share common features or functionality (i.e. concept of a chair, functionality = sit on// fish =animals that live underwater, have gills etc)

Question 4

experiments that are randomized (to no specific rule) is good because

Answer 4

it ensures the subject is not just memorizing stimuli and learning what to do for a reward, gives control.
2) test thesis that conceptualization needs language

Question 5

pseudo-category tasks

Answer 5

Half of slides are positive and half negative (pigeons did bad on this)

Question 6

Generalization is?

Answer 6

the ability for animals having been trained to respond to one stimulus, to respond similarly to another stimulus that is comparable

Question 7

non humans learn to categorize by relying on?

Answer 7

particular features

Question 8

The 3d world encourages a____ view of learning

Answer 8

holistic

Question 9

what is a binary categorization?

Answer 9

trees, not trees/ fish, not fish

Question 10

negative about binary categorization?

Answer 10

fails to capture how conceptualization occurs in the real world. animals need to classify multiple objects simultaneously

Question 11

perceptual concepts is

Answer 11

the ability to categorize objects - is widespread among mammals and birds

Question 12

object permanence

Answer 12

Concept that object continue to exist even when they disappear from sight

Question 13

at what age do children not have object permanence

Answer 13

12-18 months or younger

Question 14

visible displacement

Answer 14

to make an object disappear from view and see whether subject searches for it where it was placed (children over 12 months)

Question 15

invisible displacement tast

Answer 15

placed in a container, taken behind a screen object removed children of (18 months) (dogs after one year)

Question 16

the critical question in concept learning is

Answer 16

not whether subjects learn to respond to correct stimuli but whether they have learned the conceptual rule under investigation

Question 17

Stimulus equivalence

Answer 17

Ability of objects to substitute for each other under certain conditions - important to symbolic thought

Question 18

common response training

Answer 18

One response for one pair of categories another response for another