Conceptual Knowledge Flashcards
Concept
Mental representation of class,individual ,event,objects and abstract ideas
Category
All possible examples of a particular concept
Prototype
Typical representation of category member
Typicality effect
The ability to judge highly prototypical objects more rapidly
Priming
When one stimulus facilitates the response of another stimulus, which usually follows closely in time.
Level of categories
Superordinate
Basic
Subordinate or specific level
Connectionism
Approach to create computer model inspired by human cognition process are also called parallel distributed processing PDP
PDP
They propose that concepts are represented by activity that is distributed across a network
Connectionist network
Consist of units inspired from neurons and lines are axons
Connection weight
Signal sent from one unit either increases or decreases the activity of next unit.
Graceful degradation
Damage to one area or unit causes partial loss not complete disruption
Artifacts
Non-animal
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Temporarily disrupt the functioning of a particular area of the brain to study behavior.
