Concepts and Categorisation

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1. Why does the basic level appear to be special?

  • Different cultures tend to use different basic-level categories
  • Basic-level is less common in adult discourse than names for superordinate categories
  • Quicker to identify basic-level category members as members of a category
  • Children learn basic-level concepts later than other levels
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2. What is not true about the basic level of natural categories?

  • Usually acquired last by children
  • Exists between the two extremes
  • Balance between informativeness and economy
  • Recognised more quickly by non-experts

3. What is typicality?

  • The set of entities that are members of the concept
  • Measure of the overlap between members within a category
  • Differences in how well members relate to their category
  • The set of attributes that define what it is to be a member of a concept

4. If either of the relevant attributes must be present to be an exemplar, what is the rule?

  • Disjunctive
  • Conjunctive
  • Conditional
  • Bioconditional

5. What is family resemblance (Wittgenstein, 1953)?

  • The set of entities that are members of the concept
  • Differences in how well members relate to their category
  • Measure of the overlap between members within a category
  • The set of attributes that define what it is to be a member of a concept
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