Prototype vs Exemplar
What is the Prototype Approach?
This approach says we categorize objects by comparing them to an average or ideal example of a category.
What are Schemas?
Mental frameworks that organize knowledge and expectations about the world.
This occurs when memory fills in missing parts of a scene based on expectations.
This occurs when memory fills in missing parts of a scene based on expectations.
What is Categorization?
The mental process of grouping objects or ideas based on shared characteristics.
What is Cultural Psychology?
The study of how culture influences thinking, perception, and behavior.
What is the Exemplar Approach?
This approach says we categorize objects by comparing them to specific examples stored in memory.
A schema that describes the typical sequence of events in a situation, like going to a coffee shop.
What is a Script?
Remembering the general idea of an experience instead of the exact details.
What is Memory Abstraction?
In categorization, shapes like triangles and squares are often used to explain this concept.
What are Levels of Categorization?
What are Bicultural Individuals?
People who can switch between different cultural mindsets depending on context are called this.
Thinking of a robin as the best example of a bird demonstrates this concept.
What is a Prototype?
What is a stereotype?
This type of schema represents a person’s expectations about how people from a certain group typically behave or what they are like.
When memories from multiple experiences combine together and influence recall.
What is Memory Integration?
What is Category Membership?
The cognitive ability to determine if something belongs to a category like “dog” or “bird.”
What are Cultural Cues (or Cultural Frames)?
Environmental signals like language that activate a particular cultural way of thinking.