Definitions

Week 1

• Category: a set of objects that can be treated as equivalent in some way

• Concepts: mental representations of a category (what x is in our head). An intelligent behaviour

• Borderline Item:

• Typical: the difference in ‘goodness’ of catagory members, ranging from the most typical (the prototypr) to borderline members

• Badic level of catagorization: the ntaural, preferrd category for a given object, at an intermediate level of specifcity