knowledge (concept, categories)

Question 1

what is conceptual knowledge?

Answer 1

knowledge that enables us to:
- recognise objects/events
- make inferences about thier properties

Question 2

concepts have been defined in a number of ways. name 2.

Answer 2

1. mental rep of class or indivudal (smith, 1989)
2. categories of objects/events/abstract ideas? (kiefer, 2012)

Question 3

knowledge exists in the form of _______ and one way we can organise that is using ______.

Answer 3

concepts; categories

Question 4

choose 1. a category includes all/some/a few of the possible examples of a particular concept.

Answer 4

all

Question 5

_________ provides the rules for creating categories.

Answer 5

concepts

Question 6

categories have also been called _______ to knowledge. (yamauchi & markman, 2000)

Answer 6

pointers to knowledge

Question 7

when does categorization become difficult?

Answer 7

when you encounter something unfamiliar

when you have a brain injury and you cannot identify different objects or know what they are used for

Question 8

Things that closely resemble the prototype have high __________.

Answer 8

family resemblance

Question 9

what is family resemblance (Wittgenstein)?

Answer 9

• items in a category resemble one another in various ways, but there isn’t one essential feature that all of them share
• allows for variation

Question 10

family resemblance suggests that membership is based on ________ rather than _________.

Answer 10

a network of overlapping similarities; strict definitions