Week 3 - Visual Object Recognition Flashcards
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What is conceptual knowledge?
Knowledge that enables people to recognise objects and events and to make inferences about their properties
Define “concepts”
A mental representation of a class or individual. Also the meaning of objects, events and abstract ideas
Give an example of a concept
The way a person mentally represents “cat” or “house”
What is the definitional approach to categorisation?
The ice that we can decide whether something is a member of a category by determining whether the object meets the definition of the category
What is family resemblance?
The idea that things in a particularly category resemble each other in a number of ways
What is the prototype approach to categorisation?
The idea that we decide something is a member of category by determining whether is is similar to a standard representation of the category, called a prototype
What is sentence verification technique
A technique in which the participants is asked to indicate whether a particular sentence is true or false
What is an example of sentence verification technique?
Sentences like “an apple is a fruit”
What is the typicality effect?
The ability to judge the truth or falsity of sentences involving high prototypical members of a category more rapidly than sentences involving low prototypical members of a category
What is priming?
When presentation of one stimulus facilitates the response to another stimulus that usually follows closely in time
What is the exemplar approach to categorisation?
The approach to categorisation on which members of a category are judged against exemplars - members of the category that the person had encountered in the past
What are exemplars?
Members of a category that a person has experienced in the past
What is hierarchical organisation?
Organisation of categorises in which larger, more general categories are divided into smaller, more specific categories
What is the superordinate level
The most general category level distinguished by Rosch - for example, furniture. Same as the global level
What is the global level?
The highest level in Roschs categorisation scheme - for example further or vehicles. Same as the superordinate level
What is the basic level
The level below the global level (eg furniture)
What is the subordinate level?
The most specific category defined by Rosch (eg kitchen table)
What is the order of Roschs approach to level categories?
- Global
- Basic
- Specific
What is the semantic network approach?
And approach to understanding how concepts organised in the mind that proposes that concepts are arranged in networks
What is the hierarchical model?
As applied to knowledge representation, a model, it consists of levels, a range, so the more specific concepts, such as a canary or salmon, are at the bottom, and more general concepts, such as a bird, fish, or animal, are at higher levels
What is the cognitive economy?
A feature of some semantic network models, in which properties of a category that are shared by many members of a category are stored at a higher level node in the network. For example, the property “can fly” can be stored at the node for “bird” rather than the node for “canary”
What does spreading activation refer to?
Activity that spreads out along any link in a semantic network that is connected to an activated node
What is a lexical decision task?
A procedure in which a person has asked to decide as quickly as possible. Whether a particular stimulus is a word or a non-word
Define connectionism
A network model of mental operation that proposes that concepts are represented in networks that are modelled after neural networks. This approach to describing the mental representation of concept is also called the parallel distributed processing (PDP) approach.
