Exam 8: Categorization

Given what you have learned about concept formation and categorization, apply this knowledge to the issue of racism and stereotyping confronting society.

Which of the following does not belong?

Explain the difference between family resemblance of categories and goal-derived categories. Why aren't family resemblance categories useful for predicting typicality for goal-derived categories?

Why would a person with semantic dementia be more likely to be able to categorize a dog as an animal rather than as a mammal?

An advantage of defining clinical diagnosis by a large number of overlapping features is that it encourages clinicians to

Discuss the concept of basic level categorization. What evidence is there to support the hypothesis about its importance?

Barsalou has shown that goal-derived categories are organized around

A good example of a superordinate category might be 'animal'.

One consistent research finding concerning natural categorization is that

In the study of categorization, a prototype is

Which theories propose that people use abstracted information to classify patterns?

Typicality is a measure of how well a category member fits the basic level representation.

After learning schematic faces, which category strategy did students use most often?

'Small and square' is an example of a disjunctive rule.

Siamese is to cat as _____ category is to _____ category.

Which model was a good predictor for classifying people when attributes, such as marital status, do not differ along continuous dimensions?

An example of a causal explanation is that blurred vision (initial cause) causes headaches (intermediate cause) which causes insomnia (terminal effect). Judged category membership was lowest when

Rosch and Mervis used their family resemblance measure to explain typicality differences in

Concept identification is

Decline in the ability to match pictures and words (semantic dementia) occurs most slowly at which categorization level?