A concept about manufactured or human-designed objects.
What is an artifact concept?
100
Learning that occurs without explicit awareness of what has been learned.
What is implicit learning?
100
A bird
What can fly?
100
baker
What was the occupation mentioned in the talk?
200
A framework for organising knowledge that typically includes characters, plots and settings. It incorporates general knowledge and information about specific events.
What is a schema?
200
The idea that concepts are formed around idealised mental representations of examples.
What is a prototype view of concepts?
200
A stimulus that helps a person recall or recognise stored information.
What is a retrieval cue?
200
A flower
What is a rose?
200
Nothing - it was a naked bicycle race!
What were the cyclists wearing?
300
The idea that a concept consists of representations of actual instances experienced by the person.
What is an exemplar view of concepts?
300
A hypothesized mental representation that specifies a goal to be achieved, and one or more conditions that must be true for the rule to be applied.
What are production rules?
300
Robin might be...
What is activated with "can", "pretty", "fly" and "branches"?
300
Cookie monster (of course!)
Who was sitting on top of the tan horse?
400
A level of categorisation broader than the basic level, that can include exemplars that are quite dissimilar.
What is a superordinate level of categories?
400
The idea that there is a link between examples and concepts - similar to the link between theory and data in science
What is a knowledge-based view of concepts?
400
A grouping of items sharing one or more similarities.
What is a category?
(Bonus question: What is a concept?)
400
Natural-kind concept
What type of concept are living things?
400
Dancing on your coffee table, singing "Hit Me Baby One More Time."
Where was Britney Spears?
500
The excitation of one node, caused by the activation of another node to which it is connected.
What is spreading activation?
500
Formation of nonanalytic concepts.
What is the name given to cognitive processes that allow people to acquire information about a complex structure without being explicitly aware that they are doing so?
500
The idea that people have implicit ideas about the fundamental characteristics that all instances of a concept share.
What is psychological essentialism?
500
Canary is closer to bird than animal on a semantic network
Why do people take less time to report that a canary is a bird than a canary is an animal?
500
Method of Loci or Memory Palace
What was the method Joshua Foer used to remember the points in his talk?