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EXAM 2: Concepts and Categories Flashcards

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Concepts

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The mental representation of a category
Can be concrete (clear rules for category membership) or abstract (vague rules that don’t apply to all members)

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Category

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A set of things that are grouped together

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Concepts: What is Instance/Exemplar

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A member of a particular concept

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Concepts: What is a feature?

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Specific attribute that members share

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What are the 3 levels of categorization?

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Superordinate, Basic, Subordinate

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What are some examples of superordinate levels of categorization?

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Clothes, Furniture

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What are some examples of Basic levels of categorizations

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Coat, Chair

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What are some subordinate levels of categorization

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Pea coat, Folding chair

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How do we form concepts?

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(1) We encounter instances
(2) Get feedback (from person or environment)
(3) Store info in long-term memory (the info that is stored differs depending on the theory

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Recognition by components: What is the structure of a concept?

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Geons!

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Recognition by components: Ho do we classify new instances?

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Assess the spatial relationship of the geons, search memory for a match

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Recognition by components: What info is stored in LTM?

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The specific arrangement of the Geons

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Recognition by components: Limitations

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Works well for objects that can be defined by their shape, but fails with many other concepts

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Classical View: What is the structure of this concept?

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List of necessary and sufficient features

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Classical View: How do we classify new instances?

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See if instance matches the list for a specific concept

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Classical View: What info is stored in LTM?

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The list of features (once you know them, you’ll never categorize them incorrectly) (works really well for well-defined, concrete categories)

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Problems with classical view

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Some categories aren’t so easy to define. Between-category boundaries can be “fuzzy”, assumes all exemplars are equally good instances

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Problems with classical view: Typicality effect

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Some instances are more typical

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Problem with classical view: Family resemblance

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The degree of overlap between members of a category

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Problems with classical view: Classical view cannot account for typicality effect because

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  • Assumes all exemplars are equally good instances
  • The feature list is all you need
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Prototype View: What is the structure of a concept?

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  • Idealized, “average” example that includes typical features
  • One prototype for each concept/category
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Prototype View: How do we classify new instances?

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  • Compare new instance to all prototypes closest match wins
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Prototype View: What info is stored in LTM?

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  • The individual’s ONE prototypical example of the concept
  • Prototype will MORPH over time with each new instance
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Problems with prototype view

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(1). How do we form these prototypes? Not well understood yet
(2). Not good at capturing knowledge at boundaries (EX: baby puppy looks like a guiniea pig but we know its a dog… why?)
(3). Context effects: These can influence typicality ratings (if you are always comparing to your prototype, you should always give the same rating, but people dont.

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Exemplar View: What is the structure of a concept?

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All instances of that concept

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Exemplar View: How do we classify new instances?

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Compare new isntance to every instance for all concepts - If new instance is most similar to instances of one concept, gets categorized as that concept

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Exemplar View: What info is stored in LTM?

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All instances

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Strengths of exemplar view

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(1) No need for concrete list of features
(2) Can account for the typicality effect (more stored instances of some cateogory members)
(3) Can account for context effects (context may heighten specific instances)

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Problems with exemplar view

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Comparing to every instance in LTM seems pretty inefficient

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