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| Humans have great capacity to think and allow us to answer questions, solve problems, and contemplate. |
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A mental image represents an object or event in our mind and can be constructed by any of our senses
(hearing, tasting, etc can create mental images). |
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are categorizations of objects, events, or people that share common properties. They enable us to
organize complex phenomena into simpler, and therefore more easily usable, cognitive categories. |
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When we consider more ambiguous (general) concepts, we usually think in terms of examples
called Prototypes, which are typical, highly
representative examples of a concept that
correspond to our mental image of the concept.
Ex:You may think of the PROTOTYPE, Robin, when someone asks you to think about birds (the larger concept). |
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