Concepts and Categorisation

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Why do we not categorise?
Increases the complexity of the environment
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What is an attribute?
Distinct features of objects
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What is a rule?
Logical relationship between attributes
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What is an exemplar?
An object that satisfies a concept
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If both of the attributes specified in the logical relation must be present to be an exemplar, what rule is it?
Conjunctive
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If either of the relevant attributes must be present to be an exemplar, what is the rule?
Disjunctive
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What is the rule when if the first attribute is present then the other must be present?
Conditional
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What is the rule when both attributes must be present or both must be absent?
Bioconditional
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Different rules provide different amounts of exposure to the attributes, what does more exposure lead to?
Quicker learning
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What is not true about natural categories?
As you move from the basic level to the global level, you gain a little bit of information
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What is not true about the superordinate level of natural categories?
Lowest level of abstraction
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What is not true about the subordinate level of natural categories?
E.g. table, sparrow
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What is not true about the basic level of natural categories?
Usually acquired last by children
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Why does the basic level appear to be special?
Quicker to identify basic-level category members as members of a category
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What is family resemblance (Wittgenstein, 1953)?
Measure of the overlap between members within a category
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What is typicality?
Differences in how well members relate to their category
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What is intension?
The set of attributes that define what it is to be a member of a concept
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What is extension?
The set of entities that are members of the concept
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Which approach does not work well?
Definitional
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The concept is represented by multiple examples rather than a single one and examples are actual category members. Which approach is this?
Exemplar
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