2- The Need for Mental Concepts and Categorisation Flashcards
What couldn’t we do if we treated every object as fully unique?
Make predictions about behaviour based on past experience
What can you do once you have a representation?
You have some materials to work with in your mind to try and link different world events
How does a representation help our behaviour?
Something inside the mind knows what to expect
What are representations?
Mental structures or symbols that stand for objects and events
What can we use representations to do?
Make inferences
What does the re mean in representations?
Presented again
What are concepts?
Mental representations of categories that group together objects, events, or ideas with similar characteristics
Why are concepts the building block of semantic knowledge?
Once you have concepts, you can start to link categories
Why are representations important in language?
Language is essentially putting representations into a form of words to communicate with each other
How are concepts manipulated in our mind?
In a way corresponding to the link between external states
How are concepts and categories the basis of a lot of things?
They allow us to interpret the situation and in future decide on how to act
