Making Sense of the World - Why Do We Need Concepts?

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Making Sense of the World - Why Do We Need Concepts?

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What Concepts Are We Thinking About - Activating Concepts

Donald

The Nature of Concepts

Probabilistic View - The Evidence

Two Types of Probabilistic Models

So Which Is It? Evidence for Prototype Model

Evidence for Exemplar Model

Schwarz & Bless (1992)

Critique of the Probabillistic View

Concepts as Theory-Based

Critique of Theory Based Concepts

Where Does This Leave Us?

Organizations of Categories within a Concept

Object Hierarchy from Rosch

Trait Hierarchy from Cantor and Mischel

Models of Representation

Spreading Activation Network

Parrallel-Constraint-Satisfaction Model

Author: Steve Spencer

Email: sspencer@watarts.uwaterloo.ca

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