PSY 324 - Unit 6 - Generalizations and Concepts

Exam 2 - Spring 2025

Basic level advantage

we identify this level the most easily (identifying a cat instead of being specific as a burmese cat or as broad as an animal)

Category structure

number of objects, number of dimensions, number of values and dimensions

Conceptual combination

take two existing concepts that we know and combine them to make a new one

Exemplars

memory trace of previously encountered instances

Hierarchical concepts

superordinate (most general), basic (in the middle), subordinate (most specific)

Prototypes

what are the features that are the most typical of an object?

Rules

definitions, set of constraints that category members must obey

Structure 1 by Shepard, Hovland, & Jenkins

all share one characteristic

Structure 6 by Shepard, Hovland, & Jenkins

no pattern at all