Week 8 - Concepts & Categories

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.

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.

Theory based view

Exemplar view

Prototype view

Natural category view