Concepts and Categorization

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Concepts and Categorization
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• Concept
• Category

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Theoretical Descriptions of Concepts

• Classical View
• Features

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Theoretical Descriptions of Concepts

• Problems with Classical View
• Goodness of fit
• Feature list?

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Theoretical Descriptions of Concepts

• Prototype View

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Theoretical Descriptions of Concepts

• Prototype View

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Theoretical Descriptions of Concepts

• Exemplar View

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Theoretical Descriptions of Concepts

• Schemata View

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Theoretical Descriptions of Concepts

• Knowledge-Based View

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Forming New Concepts

• Strategies
• Simultaneous scanning
• Successive scanning
• Conservative focusing

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Forming New Concepts

• Implicit Concept Learning

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Forming New Concepts

• Psychological Essentialism
• Nominal-kind concepts
• Natural-kind concepts
• Artifact concepts