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Concepts & Categorisation

A topic within Cognitive Psychology, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

Reading on Concepts & Categorisation

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Book1987

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

George Lakoff

Uses radial categories, prototype effects and idealised cognitive models to argue human categorisation runs on embodied cognition rather than a classical checklist of shared features.

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Book1981

Categories and Concepts

Edward E. Smith & Douglas L. Medin

Surveys prototype, exemplar and theory-based accounts of how people represent categories, arguing no single model explains concept structure across all domains.

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Other topics in Cognitive Psychology