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| Inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain damage. |
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| inability to recognize faces |
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| each example must have the feature if it is to be regarded as a member of the concept |
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| anything with each feature in the set is automatically an instance of the concept |
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| mental representation of a category |
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| faster to respond to more typical responses; not every member is an equally good member |
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| family resemblance structure |
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| each member has a number of features that are shared among the group |
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| idealized features of a member of a category |
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| individually necessary and collectively sufficient; assumes that concepts mentally represent lists of features, membership in a category is clear-cut, and that members are equal |
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| problems with classical view |
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| definitions (bachelor) and typicality effects |
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| denies existence of necessary/sufficient; no individual feature needs to be present but the more characteristic features an instance has the more likely it is to be regarded as a member |
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| problems with prototype view |
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| typicality effect; odd numbers |
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| categorize new instances by comparing them to previously stored instances AKA exemplar |
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| computation load problem.. |
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| applying knowledge of how the concept is organized to justify its classification; category becomes coherent only when we know its purpose |
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| classification on meaningful relationships among instances and categories |
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| symbol representing a word |
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| study of the systematic ways in which speech sounds are combined and altered in language |
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| smallest meaningful unit of language (unit) |
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| languages have an effect on the way we perceive the world and organize information |
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| nothing is available to human consciousness outside its capacity to apply words to it |
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| structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers are able to conceptualize their world |
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| breaking into its component parts and describe their syntactic roles |
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| loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage. |
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| kind of aphasia; inability to speak in proper grammar |
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| nominal aphasia: inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects. |
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