Week 8 - Concepts & Categories

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PSY246 - Cognitive Psychology Quiz on Week 8 - Concepts & Categories, created by Daniel Whiting on 08/05/2017.
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Question 1

Question
Natural categories are defined as those that exist out there in nature.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 2

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Natural categories have a correlational structure, which is described as?
Answer
  • That certain features are likely to coincide with certain other features.
  • That we can not infer causal categories.
  • Certain features generally correlate with any other ambiguous features.
  • Features measured in a cross sectional study.

Question 3

Question
Which of the following are characteristics of natural categories?
Answer
  • Fuzzy sets
  • Family resemblance
  • Family typicality
  • Typicality
  • Internal Structure
  • Arbitrarily connected features

Question 4

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A prototype in a category is...
Answer
  • Something that is borderline in that category or not. A bookend in furniture for example.
  • Something in a category that is moderately typical of that category.
  • The member of a category with the best family resemblance scores.
  • A member in a category which has the worst family resemblance.
  • The first version of a new invention.

Question 5

Question
What are the three category levels?
Answer
  • Super-ordinate
  • Basic level
  • Subordinate
  • Supra-ordinate
  • Conscious
  • Unconscious
  • Hyper-ordinate
  • Hypo-ordinate

Question 6

Question
Which theory of categorization is able to account for categorizing within context?
Answer
  • Theory based view
  • Exemplar view
  • Prototype view
  • Natural category view
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