Test 3 Flashcards
__ is a mental representation of an object (or event or pattern) [i__]
Concept
internal
__ consists of the objects in the world that we consider to be representatives of the __; a class of similar objects [e__]
Category
concept
external
With concepts and categories we are mostly talking about __ memory and knowledge rather than __.
-o__ and their p__, s__ and sc__
Semantic, episodic
objects and their properties, scripts, schemas
Why we need concepts:
–__ knowledge
–Help us make __
functional
inferences
Characteristics of concepts:
–Can be independent of __
–Can be __
–__ types
language
hierarchical
different
- Concepts are __ Knowledge
ex: dogs, f__
functional
what dogs eat, what they look like, what they do , facts.
- Concepts Help Us Make __
- We can make __ about a ___ instance, if we can put it into a __ category
- __ instances inherit the category’s __
- Categories are not just based on __ similarity
inferences
inferences, novel, familiar
novel, characteristics
perceptual
Characteristics of Concepts Can Be Independent of __
•Infant and young children have concepts __ they have language
language
before
Conceptual Hierarchy:
•__ordinate level:
–Most __
–Ex: T_, A__
•B__ level:
–I__
–Ex: C_, D__
•__ordinate level:
–Most specific
–Ex: L__
superordinate, general, tree, animal
basic, intermediate, cat, dog
subordinate, specific, Labrador
People process different types of concepts differently
–N__ concepts: based on definitions set by __
ex: •__ NUMBER, B__, S__
nominal
humans
even number, bachelor, square
People process different types of concepts differently
–N__-kind concepts: Objects found in the __ world
ex: •A__, P__, I__, M__
natural
natural
animal, plant, island, mountain
People process different types of concepts differently
–A__ concepts: Objects made by __.
•F__, V__, A__
artifactual
humans
furniture, vehicle, art
Types of concepts based on use or function:
–__-derived – foods to eat on a diet; things to take from the house if there’s a fire [see ad hoc categories]
–__ categories – rivalry, hunting
–__ categories – visits, dates, shopping trips
–__ categories – Millennials, Gen-X, Republican, Democrat
goal
relational
event
social
Three views of concepts:
- __ View: Concepts based on rules
- object fits __ or it doesn’t
2.F__-r__: Concepts based on similarity
- E__: Concepts based on similarity
- to an __/__
Classical
-rule
family-resemblance
exemplar
-event/episode
Classical View
•N__ and j__ sufficient features
–Example: __
•Closed geometrical figure
•2 dimensional
•Composed of 3 lines
–Example: __
•Male
•Unmarried
•Human
necessary and jointly sufficient
triangle
bachelor
How do we learn new categories?
•81 Cards: 4 dimensions; 3 features within a dimension
•A rule defines the “correct” category
–Three shapes + black
–Either 2 borders or 3 gray shapes
- Subject picks cards and tries to guess the rule
- Conjunctive or disjunctive rules
•Conjunctive concept:
–Defined by a rule that only uses the logical connectives __ and __.
–Ex: (__ = three) AND (__ = black)
–__ to learn
•Disjunctive concept:
–Defined by a rule that uses ___-__ (and may also use __ and __).
–Ex: EITHER 2 __ OR 3 __.
–__ to learn
and, not
number, color
easier
either-or, and, not
borders, shapes
harder
Implications of Classical View
- __ specifying __ features define categories
- Concepts are NOT __ of specific examples.
•Category membership is __ __.
Examples:
–triangles
–triangles vs. circles
rules, required
memories
clear cut
All triangles are equally triangular
There are no objects that we can’t decide if they are triangles or circles.
Family Resemblance Theory Background
•Some concepts can’t be defined by __ and __ features (classical view)
ex–G__, p__, s__
•Category members have a __ __(varying degree of __) to one another
necessary, sufficient
games, pornography, superheroes
family resemblance, similarity
Family-Resemblance Theory
Thought of by __ __
- Degree of __ among items determines __ structure
- All instances of that concept may not share one single __ __.
- However, the more ___ features an item has, the more __ an example of the concept it is
Eleanor Rosch
similarity, category
common feature
characteristic, typical
Family-Resemblance Theory Graded Conceptual Structure
- Graded structure: certain category members are rated as more __ or ___ of the category than others
- Prototype: the __ representative of a concept; it possesses many __ concept features (the “__ of __” of the cluster)
- Items with minimal overlap with other items are __ members
typical, representative
best, typical
center of mass
peripheral
Family-Resemblance Theory Graded Conceptual Structure
•Evidence for __-based __ structure of concepts:
–__ ratings
–Faster verification of __ members (more __)
•Participants rated the extent to which basic-level examples represented their idea of the __ category
–1 = very good example
–7= poor example
ex: fruits
prototype, internal
typicality
typical, accessible
superordinate
people rated an orange as a 1 and an olive as a 6.
Evidence for Family Resemblance Similarity-Based Categorization
•People listed attributes of objects in Category (BIRD)
–Robin, Bluejay: feathers, flies, nests in trees, sings, eats worms
–Penguin: feathers, wings
- Positive correlation between ___ of characteristic features & __ ratings
- __ members share __ features
number, typicality
prototypical, characteristic
___ of Category Members
•Typicality:
–High (e.g, robin)
–Medium (eagle)
–Low (e.g, penguin)
•True/False: Decide whether each word is a member of a given category
.•Prototypical members of a category:
–Most accessible for __
–Play a role in __ structure
accessibility
recall
category
Exemplar-Based View
•Alternative theory to classical and family-resemblance theories
Classical View:
– __-based; __ rules easier than __ rules
Family-Resemblance:
– similarity to __
Exemplar-Based View:
–No single __ __ of a concept
–Concepts are based on __ in memory called __.
-New items categorized based on similarity to __.
rule, conjunctive, disjunctive
prototype
mental representation
episodes, exemplars, exemplars
Memory for Specific Instances (__ instead of __)
- Memory for the __ training exemplars is maintained, even after a more __ representation of the category has been developed.
- Amnesiacs with difficulties with episodic memory can categorize stimuli accurately (__ memory), even if they can’t recognize the stimuli from training (__, __ memory)
- It is problematic for Exemplar Theory if concept learning takes place independently of __ of specific items
- We use both __ and __.
exemplars, prototypes
specific, abstract
implicit, explicit, episodic
memory
exemplars, prototypes
•Each theory has difficulty explaining some aspect of __ __.
–Prototypes and exemplars both rely on __ for categorization
–BUT – sometimes, surface __ is less important than other factors in categorization
•E___
concept formation
similarity
similarity
essentialism
Specific vs Placeholder Essentialism
•Specific essentialism:
–A category essence is __ and contributes to the __ and __ of the category label.
–Example: The essence of water is H2O.
•Placeholder essentialism:
–A person believes that there is some __ that holds a category together, without knowing just what that __ is.
–Ex: A person believes that all samples of water share some inherent, non-obvious property.
known
meaning, use
essence, essence
Psychological Essentialism Characteristics of Categories
Our focus is psychological placeholder essentialism.
•Some categories have an underlying true __ that can’t be __ directly
–Membership has an i__, g__, or b__ basis
–Membership is s__
–Membership is __-__-__
–EXAMPLE: Preschoolers who were told that a baby kangaroo went to live with goats still predicted the kangaroo would hop and have a pouch
•Essentialism is a r__ h__.
nature, observed
innate, genetic, biological
stable
all-or-none
reasoning heuristic
Evidence for Essentialism: __ Labels Can Trump __ Similarity
•4-yr-old kids and adults
•20 triplets of pictures
•The target shared a category label with one item, but was drawn to resemble the other. (aka: bird drawn to look like similar to bat)
•Property projection test:
–Bat –> feeds milk to babies
–Flamingo –>mashed-up food
–What does Bird feed to babies?
•Underlying __ outweigh __ similarity, even for __…there’s a developmental shift from __ to __ features
category, perceptual
essences, surface
children
surface, essential
•Essentialist: __-__-__ category membership
Vs.
•Prototypes: __ structure
Can people use essentialist information to make category decisions and still show graded structure effects?
YES, Prototype & Essentialist Categories CAN __-__.
ex: Grandmothers
all-or-none
graded
co-exist
GRANDMOTHER has a biological, rule-based definition, BUT some grammies are more grandmotherly than others…People may represent both the essential and prototypicality of concepts simultaneously
Development
- Does how we __ the world change as we get older?
- Perhaps not surprisingly, __.
•Children’s concepts shift from use of __, __ features to use of __ features to categorize __, __ kinds
ex: Can a Raccoon Change Into a Skunk?
- what did younger kids say? older kids?
- Developmental shift from __ to __ features for biological kinds.
- All ages willing to change categories for __.
conceptualize, yes
perceptual, surface
essentialist
natural, biological
younger kids used surface features and said it can become a skunk and as they got older there was a developmental shift from characteristic to essential features.
characteristic, essential
artifacts.
Developmental shift from ___ to ___ features
- 5.5-10 yr olds shown descriptions of people or objects
- Can this person be a robber?
- Younger children used __ features
- Older children used __ features
- Shift to __ features for non-biological (__) categories
characteristic, defining
surface
defining
essential
nominal
Hierarchical Semantic Network
- C__ & Q__: First model of semantic memory
- Each concept is represented by a __ in memory
- Concepts are related by __
Collins and Quillian
node
links
•Models of semantic memory
- How knowledge is __
- How knowledge is used in __ and __.
structured
thinking, reasoning
Processing in Semantic Networks
•Cognitive __
–Ex. All birds fly, so… _____
•To answer a question, search memory
–Each word activates its __
–Do the two paths to the root __?
economy
All birds fly, so attach fly to ‘bird’ and not ‘robin’
node
intersect
How to Test Hierarchical Organization in Semantic Memory?
•Category __ tasks
•Reaction times (RT): T or F
–Faster for __ than __.
–Faster for information __ together (fewer __)
•__ tests (fastest to slowest reaction times)
–“A canary is a bird”
–“A canary is a fish”
•__ tests (fastest to slowest reaction times)
–Level 0: “A canary can sing”
–Level 1: “A canary can fly”
–Level 2: “A canary has skin”
verification
true, false
closer
links
concept
property
Problems with C&Q’s Semantic Nets
•The domain of “__ __” is a unique taxonomy
•Verification time depends on other factors (__, __).
–“A canary is a bird.” verifies __ than “A penguin is a bird.”
•___ effects often go away when these factors are included:
–“A shark can move.” verifies __ than “An animal can move.”
•Reverse distance effects for __ statements:
–“Canary is a tiger” __ than “Canary is a carrot”
living things
typicality, frequency
faster
hierarchical
faster
false
slower
Spreading-Activation Model
- __ network (not ___)
- Connections vary on __ strength
- __ spreads along links to explain __ effects
- Explains why “Canary is a bird” verifies __ than a “Penguin is a bird”
associative, hierarchical
associative
activation, priming
faster
Semantic Memory in ACT-R
- Seeing, hearing, reading a word activates the __ in memory
- __ activation
•Activation speed and strength depend on:
–Number of __ on a __.
–Activation __
ex: dodo bird
concept
spreading
links, node
frequency
- The dodo, a bird, was discovered in Australia
- The dodo does not fly
- The dodo eats flowers
•Maybe memory only uses the global __-___ of words to build concepts?
–Sematic memory is constructed out of context-based __ among words, instead of meaning or features
–__ similarity of words define the relations between any two concepts
Hyperspace Analogue to Language (HAL)
•Input 300,000,000 words from internet discussion groups
•Window of processing = 10 words
•Examples:
–__ and __ are conceptually linked because they appear in similar __ (are close to similar words in the 10-word window)
co-occurences
associations
contextual
road and street
contexts
The Basic Level
•Categories are ___ organized
•The Basic Level is psychologically “___”
–How we (generally) __
–Most __ level; not too __ or too __.
–Cross-__ and cross-__ preference
hierarchically
privileged
communicate
informative
general, specific
cross-cultural, cross-linguistic
Semantic Memory and Expertise
•__ changes the level used to label objects
–Bird experts used the __ level, but novices used the __ level
•Basic Level & categorization changes with __
–Three kinds of tree experts classified trees differently, depending on their __
expertise
subordinate, basic
goals
objectives
Concepts are Flexible
•Ad hoc or Improvised Concepts
–Sometimes we make __ on the __
–__, and not dependent on a stable concept in _ _ _.
categories, fly
situational, LTM
Rational Thinking
- “Within cognitive science, thinking is often used to refer to r__, d__ m__, p__ s__, and c__.”
- “Rational thinking is thinking that is maximally effective in enabling us to achieve our __.”
- “The term rational thinking can also be applied to thinking that conforms to the rules of __ or to mathematical or statistical __.”
reasoning, decision making, problem solving, and creativity
goals
logic, laws
Concepts are F__
•C__ influences category decisions
•Cup or bowl? (Labov, 1973)
–No clear __
–C__ (what was in the container) shifted category judgments
•Concepts are d__
flexible
context
boundary
context
dynamic
Cortical Areas Related to Naming Deficits
__ __ damage can cause impairments in identifying and/or retrieving information about __ AND __ objects
temporal lobe
living, nonliving
Evidence from patients with selective naming deficits for different types of concepts suggests that information about natural kinds (__) and artifactual kinds (non-living) are stored in __ parts of the brain.
Converging evidence from patients with brain damage to different areas of the temporal lobe, and PET imaging from healthy controls showed consistent organization of semantic memory: nonliving things stored in the __ ___ __ __ and living things stored in the __ __ ___ __.
Alternate explanations for selective deficits of living or nonliving things include the ___-___ theory and the __ ___ __ Hypothesis
living, non-living
different
left posterior temporal cortex
left anterior temporal lobe
sensory functional
organized unitary content
How does someone really know something?
•Knowledge = \_\_ \_\_ \_\_ –Subject knows that ‘\_\_’ (p) is true IF i.p is \_\_ ii.S \_\_ that p iii.S is \_\_ in believing that p
- True p = The world _ the way _ says it is.
- Belief = __ p is true.
- Justification = e__ d__, t__, d__
true justified belief
proposition
true
believes
justified
is P
accept
empirical data, testimony, deduction
- Justification requires __.
- The better your __ knowledge, the easier it is to recognize __.
- No scientific theory is absolutely __, but __ thinking and the __ method make science __-____.
- Established scientific theories are probably ___ correct, but not __.
evidence
background, errors
certain, skeptical, scientific, self-correcting
approximately, infallible
Tools for Critical (Skeptical) Thinking
- ___ confirmation of the “facts”.
- Substantive debate by __.
- There are no __; at most experts.
- Don’t get overly attached to your ideas (__ __)
independent
experts
authorities
confirmation bias
•Confirmation bias – do not favor a hypothesis just because you __ it or you __ it to be true.
•De-personalize the debate:
–Consider questions, evidence, and arguments as i__ a__ objects that are not the personal property of any one thinker, but are rather __ property, and the subject of dispassionate contemplation.
–Criticize the __ and not the __ who defends a position! (This is the so-called __ ___ fallacy.)
–Arguments from __ carry little weight.
formulated, want
impersonal abstract
communal
position, person
ad hominem
authority
Tools for Critical Thinking
- __ working hypotheses
- T__, f__ hypotheses
- Q__ when possible
- Use __ experiments w/ __.
- Use valid l__ and s__ methods.
- Occam’s Razor - KISS
- explain
multiple
testable, falsifiable
quantify
designed, controls
logical, statistical
the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex
(keep it simple and short)
Fallacies of Logic and Rhetoric
- Logical fallacies: mistaken steps in __, p__ are identified correctly, but the attempted __ transitions among those p__ are not made properly.
- Rhetorical fallacies are __. They don’t even identify the __ on which the argument at hand should be concentrating. The person is trying to __ the audience.
reasoning, propositions, inferential, propositions
worse
propositions
deceive
Rhetorical Fallacies:
Argumentum ad hominem (at the __)
Attacking the __ instead of the __.
ex: Hilary Clinton and Sarah Huckabee
person
arguer, argument
Hillary Clinton is a nasty woman or Sarah Huckabee Sanders is fat
Rhetorical Fallacies:
Argument from authority
Saying that because an __ says it, your argument must be __.
ex: urban meyer
authority, true
OSU is #1 bc Urban Meyer says that this is the best OSU football team ever
Rhetorical Fallacies:
Argument from adverse consequences (appeal to __)
Premise asserts ___ to divert from the actual argument
ex: abuse trial
fear
consequences
Defendant must be found guilty of abuse, otherwise other men will abuse their wives
Rhetorical Fallacies:
Appeal to ignorance
Whatever has not been __ is true. I don’t know ‘X’ so ‘Y’ must be true.
ex: UFOs
disproven
No evidence that UFOs are NOT visiting earth, so UFOs exist.