The Big Book of Concepts

By: Gregory Murphy

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Paperback | 30 January 2004

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Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize and understand new objects and events. Concepts are also relevant to understanding domains such as social situations, personality types, and even artistic styles. Yet like other phenomenologically simple cognitive processes such as walking or understanding speech, concept formation and use are maddeningly complex. Research since the 1970s and the decline of the "classical view" of concepts have greatly illuminated the psychology of concepts. But persistent theoretical disputes have sometimes obscured this progress. "The Big Book of Concepts" goes beyond those disputes to reveal the advances that have been made, focusing on the major empirical discoveries. By reviewing and evaluating research on diverse topics such as category learning, word meaning, conceptual development in infants and children, and the basic level of categorization, the book develops a much broader range of criteria than is usual for evaluating theories of concepts.

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"Superb.... Murphy is one of the leading scholars in this area, and he reviews a complicated literature with honesty, clarity, and wit. This is going to be the classic text in the field for a very long time. It is one of those rare cases in which the standard back-of-the-book blurb is actually true. Anyone seriously interested in concepts and categorization - seasoned researchers, graduates and advanced undergraduates, or scholars who simply want to get a sense of the field - must read this book." - Paul Bloom, Nature"

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Non-Fiction Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Neurosciences Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory States of Consciousness Drug-Induced States

Introduction	p. 1
Typicality and the Classical View of Categories	p. 11
Theories	p. 41
Appendix: The Generalized Context Model	p. 65
Exemplar Effects and Theories	p. 73
Miscellaneous Learning Topics	p. 115
Knowledge Effects	p. 141
Taxonomic Organization and the Basic Level of Concepts	p. 199
Induction	p. 243
Concepts in Infancy	p. 271
Conceptual Development	p. 317
Word Meaning	p. 385
Conceptual Combination	p. 443
Anti-Summary and Conclusions	p. 477
Notes	p. 499
References	p. 519
Name Index	p. 547
Subject Index	p. 553
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