Learning — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

Concept is a general category of ideas, objects, people, or experiences whose members share certain properties.Artificial concept:

1. Artificial concepts are those that are well defined and rules connecting the features are precise and rigid.
2. These concepts are used in science and technologies.
3. It is defined as 'set of features' connected by some rules which are called relevant features. There may be some rule of which the conjunctive rule is often made.
4. These concepts have features connected by a conjunctive rule e.g. a square, a triangle etc.

Natural Concepts:

1. Natural concepts or categories are usually ill-defined.
2. Numerous features are found in the instances of a natural category.e.g. Biological objects or real world products and human artifacts such as tools, clothes and houses.
3. Natural categories are considered to be instances of one category under one condition and instance of another category under other conditions. e.g.: jackfruit is a vegetable as well as a fruit.

Natural categories have family resemblance also: e.g. All birds have wings, lay eggs, and perch on branches of trees or tops of tall structures.