Midterm 2

Question 0

Person as scientist (fold psychology)

Answer 0

People reason about mental states much like how scientists would reason about science

Question 1

Side-effect effect (Knobe)

Answer 1

Intentional actions don’t just involve causal relations; moral consideration also influences this

Question 2

Biased scientist view

Answer 2

People go about try to act as scientists, but are influenced by many things e.g. Emotions, pragmatic

Question 3

Rational scientist view

Answer 3

People make rational influences about mental states. In norm-violating situations, people tend to infer that there is a mental state that led to intentional action

Question 4

Classical view

Answer 4

Concepts are defined in terms of individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions

Question 5

Prototype theory

Answer 5

Concepts are represented by a prototype, and other members of the same category share a family resemblance with the prototype, and typicality is a function of similarity to prototype

Question 6

Prototype

Answer 6

Summary representation with greatest average similarity

Question 7

Levels of categorization

Answer 7

Superordinte, basic (privileged), subordinate

Question 8

Garcia effect

Answer 8

Taste aversion established when eating food is associated with nausea

Question 9

Illusory correlation

Answer 9

People report correlation in data even when there is no correlation

Question 10

Means-ends analysis

Answer 10

Create new goal to enable an operator to apply in achieving the old goal

Question 11

Einstellung effect

Answer 11

Habituation to a solution causes people to neglect simpler solutions