What is the central idea of the theory-based view of categorization?

Correct answer: People categorize concepts based on their own implicit theories or general ideas about those concepts.

Explanation

This question tests the definition of the theory-based view of categorization, which emphasizes the role of individuals' underlying explanations and ideas.

Other questions

Question 1

What is the primary distinction between declarative and procedural knowledge?

Question 2

What is the relationship between a concept and a category?

Question 3

Which of the following pairings correctly identifies an example of a natural category and an artifact category?

Question 4

Why is the 'basic level' of a category, such as 'apple' rather than 'fruit' or 'Red Delicious apple', generally preferred for characterization?

Question 5

According to the classic feature-based view, what is required for a concept to be defined?

Question 6

The concept of 'game' is used as an example to illustrate a problem with which theory of categorization?

Question 7

In the Malt and Smith (1984) study on the typicality of birds, which of the following received the lowest rating on a 7-point scale, despite not being a bird at all?

Question 8

What is the key difference between defining features and characteristic features?

Question 9

What is the primary difference between classical concepts and fuzzy concepts?

Question 10

How does exemplar theory differ from prototype theory in explaining categorization?

Question 11

In the synthesis theory that combines feature-based and prototype views, what do the terms 'core' and 'prototype' refer to?

Question 12

In the Keil and Batterman (1984) study on how children categorize a 'robber,' how did younger children (around 5 years old) differ from older children (close to 10 years old)?

Question 14

In Rips' (1989) experiment with the 'sorp' that accidentally transformed to look like an insect, what did participants' ratings reveal about category membership versus similarity?

Question 15

In the Collins and Quillian's network model, what are the elements of meaning and the connections between them called?

Question 16

What is the principle of 'cognitive economy' within the context of Collins and Quillian's hierarchical network model?

Question 17

In hierarchical network models, what does the concept of 'inheritance' imply?

Question 18

What finding presented an anomaly for the strict hierarchical structure of the Collins and Quillian model?

Question 19

How is a schema defined in the chapter?

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT listed as a characteristic of schemas that ensures their flexibility?

Question 21

The phenomenon where people, after seeing a photograph, remember details that were just outside the boundaries of the photo is known as what?

Question 22

How does a 'script' differ from a more general 'schema'?

Question 23

In the research by Bower, Black, and Turner (1979) involving brief stories based on scripts (like a doctor's visit), what did participants tend to do in a recall task?

Question 24

What is 'jargon' in the context of expert knowledge and scripts?

Question 25

According to the 'typicality effect' in script learning, which type of information is recalled more readily when a person is learning a script?

Question 26

How do computer simulations often represent procedural knowledge?

Question 27

According to Squire's expanded model, which of the following is NOT considered a form of nondeclarative knowledge?

Question 28

What is the key difference between semantic priming and repetition priming?

Question 29

According to spreading activation theories, the amount of activation between a prime and a target node is a function of what two things?

Question 30

John Anderson's ACT-R model is an integrative model because it combines which two forms of representation?

Question 31

Within Anderson's ACT-R model, how is declarative knowledge represented?

Question 32

The acquisition of procedural skills in the ACT-R model occurs in what three stages?

Question 33

In the context of proceduralization within ACT-R, what is 'composition'?

Question 34

What are the two complementary processes involved in 'production tuning' within the ACT-R model?

Question 35

What is the key assumption of parallel distributed processing (PDP) or connectionist models regarding how cognitive operations are handled?

Question 36

In a parallel distributed processing (PDP) model, where is knowledge represented?

Question 37

In a connectionist model that uses the brain as a metaphor, what are the three possible states of a neuron-like unit at any given time?

Question 38

What characteristic of parallel distributed processing (PDP) models explains the human ability to handle incomplete or distorted information?

Question 39

What is one of the main criticisms of connectionist models mentioned in the chapter?

Question 40

According to the two-learning-systems hypothesis proposed to address shortcomings in connectionist models, what are the roles of the two systems?

Question 41

What is the core idea behind Jerry Fodor's concept of the 'modularity of mind'?

Question 42

A key difference between a network representation and a connectionist representation is that in a network representation, learning involves adding new nodes, whereas in a connectionist network, learning involves what?

Question 43

Which of the following is the best example of an ad hoc category?

Question 44

How does the 'varying abstraction model' (VAM) position prototypes and exemplars in its theory of categorization?

Question 45

The view that certain categories, like 'lion' or 'female,' have an underlying reality that cannot be observed directly is known as what?

Question 46

When presented with words like 's _ _ m' after reading a paragraph about semantic networks, many people complete it as 'stem'. This is used as an example of what phenomenon?

Question 47

What are the three features used to organize mammal names in the psychological space described by the 'comparing semantic features' model?

Question 48

Imaging studies mentioned in the chapter found that the generation of scripts involves which two lobes of the brain?

Question 49

A criticism of connectionist models is that they do not satisfactorily explain how we quickly unlearn established patterns when presented with contradictory information, such as being told what?

Question 50

In the ACT-R model of skill acquisition, which stage is characterized by consciously practicing explicit rules in a consistent manner to become more familiar with them?