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cognitive psych 8.1,2,3
gauthier psych 101 vanderbilt test 3
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11/14/2005

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cognition
Definition
thinking, dealing and gaing knowledge
Term
Rosch's category theory
give:
acronymn
define the two types of categories mentioned
Definition
Basic Level Categories
basic= chair
subordinate= kitchen chair
superordinate= furniture
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superordinate catgeory
Definition
furniture for chair
Term
subordinate category
Definition
kitchen chair for
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protoytpe
Definition
helps categorizze.
Term
Two parts of classical view of categorization
Definition
singly necessary features
jointly sufficent features
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singly necessary features
Definition
features that is necessary to be part of the category

bachleor=
adult
male
unmaried
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jointly sufficient features
Definition
things with this set of features must be something

wings
beak
feathers

= bird
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typicality effect
Definition
if categorization was based on a set of feautrs, all members hshould be categorized with equal ease.

but typical objects are easier to categorize.
Term
prototype view
Definition
categories do not have definition, members in the same category, are generaly similar to each other butno definig features.
Term
posner and keele demo
Definition
things are lumped in (incorrectly) when they are prototypical of a set.
Term
problems with classical and prototype theories
Definition
classical:
somethings hard to define

something easier to categorize than other

prototype:
some features more important

ribs pizza experiment categorization is more than similarity to prototypes.

some features hav no obvious prototype
Term
spreading activation
Definition
thinking about concepts spreads actiovation of other concepts linked to it. causes mistkakes like moses on the ark, louis armstrong on the moon.
Term
priming
Definition
causes the activation of related concepts can cause hilairous mistakes
Term
selective attention
Definition
allows you to overcome stoop effect , pay attention to one selected stimulus
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stroop effect
Definition
reading red green as green not red

certain responses dominate over less automatic responeses
Term
preattentive- synonmymn and definition
Definition
exogenous attention

the world can grab your attention.

ducky, bird among many.
Term
attentive process
Definition
endogenous, youhaave to change attention, search
Term
two types of attending
Definition
overt- move your eyes
covert- dont move your eyes
Term
change blindness
Definition
the requent failure to detect changes in pairs of a scene

due to our remembering of some details and a sketchy summary otherwise
Term
attentional blink
Definition
after percieving some stimulus it is difficult to attend to something else
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