Natural categories are defined as those that exist out there in nature.
Natural categories have a correlational structure, which is described as?
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.
Which of the following are characteristics of natural categories?
Fuzzy sets
Family resemblance
Family typicality
Typicality
Internal Structure
Arbitrarily connected features
A prototype in a category is...
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.
What are the three category levels?
Super-ordinate
Basic level
Subordinate
Supra-ordinate
Conscious
Unconscious
Hyper-ordinate
Hypo-ordinate
Which theory of categorization is able to account for categorizing within context?
Theory based view
Exemplar view
Prototype view
Natural category view
