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Redfield, Robert. 1950s
Lecture 2 |
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| Who developed the theory of Worldviews? |
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Ross and Spalding. 1994
Lecture 4 |
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These authors suggested that:
1. A main function of categories is to allow inference for understanding, explanation, and prediction.
2. Classification "provides access to all knowledge one has about a concept." |
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Ungerer & Schmid. 1996
Lecture 11 |
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Who proposed the principles of Gestalts, which include the follow?
1. Principle of Proximity - Individual elements with a small distance between them will be perceived as being somehow related to each other.
2. Principle of Similarity - Individual elements that are similar tend to be perceived as one common segment.
3. Principle of Closure - Perceptual organization tends to be anchored in closed figures
4. Principle of Continuation - elements will be perceived as wholes if they only have few interruptions |
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Geisler & Feinberg. 1980
Lecture 11 |
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Which authors summarized the Epistemological Approach as "The way we know reality is by starting at the basic level to verify the fact of an event?"
They also said, "revelation is before faith, human experience must be used to evaluate whether or not the Bible is indeed from God." |
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Rosch, Eleanor. 1978
Lecture 13 |
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| This author is credited with developing Prototype theory and performing tests to prove the theory. |
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| Who suggested Fuzzy Set Theory? |
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| In addressing the definition of an exemplar, this author suggest as hedges: "sort of," "more or less," "kind of," "strictly/loosely speaking." |
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Rosch, Eleanor. 1973
Lecture 13 |
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| In regards to defining exemplar, this author suggests categories have a core meaning and degrees outward. |
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| This author defines conceptual metaphor as a "relationship between metaphor and thought extends beyond a person's mind into the cultural world the person lives within." |
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| This author is quoted as saying, "Metaphors are tools for working with experience." |
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Lakoff & Johnson.
Lecture 28 |
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| These authors developed the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor. |
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Coulson et al. 1999
Lecture 33 |
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| These authors address the differences between conceptual metaphor theory and blending theory in their article "Blending and Metaphor." |
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| Fauconnier and Turner. 2002 |
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| These authors developed the theory of Mental Spaces. |
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