Review of Knowledge and Stereotyping Concepts

These flashcards cover key concepts related to knowledge building, categorization, and stereotyping as discussed in the lecture.

Transfer Appropriate Processing

Learning something in a specific setting and recalling it in the same setting.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember the first items on a list.

Recency Effect

The tendency to remember the last items on a list.

Concept

A mental representation that serves as a building block of knowledge.

Categorization

The process of placing items into groups to understand and respond appropriately.

Definitional Approach

Category membership based on whether an object meets the definition of the category.

Family Resemblance

The idea that things in a category resemble one another in a number of ways.

Prototype Approach

A concept represented by an 'average' of category members encountered in the past.

Exemplar Approach

A concept represented by multiple examples encountered in the past.

Stereotype

An oversimplified generalization about a group of people.

Stereotype Threat

Anxiety that one will confirm a negative stereotype about their social group, affecting performance.