categorization

Examples of categorization in the following topics:

• Understanding Concepts

  • Framing and categorization help us interpret, understand, and utilize concepts through accessible context and organization.
  • Simple categorization is the process of sorting or arranging things into categories.
  • Categorization is fundamental in language, prediction, inference, decision making, and other environmental interactions.
  • Thus, conceptual clustering creates a classification structure, which can then be used for categorization.
  • The pitfall of categorization, as many have experienced, is that many things in life defy categorization.

• Classification and Categorization

  • The word "categorization" implies that objects are sorted into categories, usually for some specific purpose.
  • There are many theories of how the mind categorizes objects and ideas.
  • This type of categorization dates back to the classical period in Greece.
  • Most modern forms of categorization do not have such a cut-and-dried system.
  • Categorization can also be viewed as the process of grouping things based on prototypes.

• General Strengths and Limitations of Trait Perspectives

  • While trait theories are useful in categorizing behavior, they have been criticized by a number of psychologists.
  • One strength of the trait perspectives is their ability to categorize observable behaviors.
  • Researchers have found that examining the aggregate behaviors of individuals provides a strong correlation with traits; in other words, observing the behaviors of an individual over time and in varying circumstances provides evidence for the personality traits categorized in trait theories.
  • Another strength is that trait theories use objective criteria for categorizing and measuring behavior.

• Cognitive Psychology

  • Major areas of research in cognitive psychology include perception, memory, categorization, knowledge representation, numerical cognition, language, and thinking.

• Biology of Emotion

  • This system categorizes the experience of an emotion as a pleasant or unpleasant mental state.
  • Based on this categorization, neurochemicals such as dopamine, noradrenaline, and serotonin increase or decrease, causing the brain's activity level to fluctuate and resulting in changes in body movement, gestures, and poses.

• Defining "Normal" and "Abnormal"

  • The 5th edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM-5) lays out explicit and specific guidelines for identifying and categorizing symptoms and diagnoses.
  • As the DSM has evolved over time, there have been a number of conflicts surrounding the categorization of abnormal versus normal mental functioning.

• Defining Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

  • Sex and gender are not always synchronous, meaning they do not always line up in an easy-to-categorize way.
  • The standard model explains that gender is categorized into two separate, opposing sides, being either masculine or feminine, again completely excluding those who are intersex, transgender, androgynous, and so on.

• Neurocognitive Disorders

  • The 5th edition of the DSM (DSM-5) categorize NCDs as either mild or major.

• The Value of Social Support in Managing Stress

  • Social support can be categorized in several different ways.

• The Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

  • Reflexes can be categorized as either monosynaptic or polysynaptic based on the reflex arc used to perform the function.