Theories of Concepts, Conceptual Representation and Category Learning

Question 1

Classical
Theory

Answer 1

The theory in which major emphasis is placed on the libido, the stages of psychosexual development, and the id instincts or drives.

Question 2

Family Resemblance theory

Answer 2

The theory that things which could be thought to be connected by one essential common feature may in fact be connected by a series of overlapping similarities, where no one feature is common to all of the things.

Question 3

What are some challenges to the Classical Theory of concepts?

Answer 3

The prototype theory argues that a number of vague concepts such as bald and short cause troubles for it.

Question 4

Prototype Theory

Question 5

Exemplar Theory

Answer 5

The hypothesis that categorization depends on specific remembered instances of the category, as opposed to an abstract prototype or a feature-based rule that defines category membership.