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| Manipulating mental representations for a purpose |
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| visual representations of a stimulus |
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| representation that describe explain, or predict the way things work |
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| groupings based on common properties |
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| mental representation of a category of objects, ideas, or events that share common properties |
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| THE PROCESS OF IDENTIFYING AN OBJECT AS AN INSTANCE OF A CATEGORY, RECOGNIZING ITS SIMILARITY TO SOME OBJECTS AND DISSIMILARITY TO OTHERS |
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| qualities that are essential, or necessarily present, in order to classify an object as a member of a category |
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| concepts that have properties clearly setting them apart from other concepts |
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| a particularly good example of a category |
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| the level of categories which people naturally go; the level at which objects share distinctive properties |
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| a level of categorization below the basic level in which more specific attributes are shared by members of a category |
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| the more abstract level of categorization in which members of a category share few common features |
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| the process by which people generate and evaluate arguments and beliefs |
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| the process of reasoning from specific observations to general propositions |
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| the process of reasoning that draws logical conclusions from premises |
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| a formal statement of deductive reasoning which consists of two premises that lead to a logical conclusion |
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