Concepts
2008-10-16
Concept - a mental shortcut for a culmination of things – eg. Dog •
Natural Concepts – casual or fuzzy concepts – eg. Cars
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Formal Concepts- concepts that can be clearly defined by a set of rules or properties. Eg. Fruit, mammals, etc
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Prototypes – an example that embodies common or typical features of the concept for comparison
Mental Models – sets of propositions that represent people’s understandings of how things look and work. How concepts relate to each other in the real world.
Images – Mental representations of visual information
Cognitive Maps – a mental model that represents familiar parts of the environment.
Learning Concepts •
Positive instances: Parents acknowledge concepts
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Negative instances: denial of concepts
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Systemic or Formal Approaches – definitions
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Exemplars – think of other things in our experiences that an object matches