Mixing Memory: The Basics of the Basic Level
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Saved by 2 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-09-14
- Subordinaterecording on 2009-08-03 - Tags cognitive , categorization
- Gaotsin on 2008-09-14 - Tags literature , blog , research , cognitive , category , basiclevel
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for hierarchically organized (taxonomic) categories, there is a priveleged level, the basic level.
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, it's a level in a conceptual taxonomy somewhere between the most general (e.g., animal, or anything more general than that) and the most specific (e.g., yellow-bellied sapsucker).
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the basic level tends to be the first concepts young children learn
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at which parents tend to label concepts when speaking to young children
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. It's the most general level at which it's easy to obtain conceptual priming,
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the level at which people tend to first identify an object when presented with it visually
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