Discussion: Case Categorization

Discussion: Case Categorization

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Week 6 – Assignment 2 Assignment 2: Practicum I Journal Entry 4 This is your fourth out of six journal assignments in this course. Write a 300–500-word journal entry covering the following: Identify two or three goals for this week that you have established for yourself related to Practicum I. Review and reflect on how you met these goals this week. Explain how you integrated two concepts or content areas from Week 6 into your practicum experience this week. Identify your area of greatest learning this week. Submit your journal entry to the Journal area by Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Name your journal entry SU_NSG6620_W6_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.

In a physicalist theory of mind, a concept is a mental representation, which the brain uses to denote a class of things in the world. This is to say that it is literally, a symbol or group of symbols together made from the physical material of the brain.[8][9] Concepts are mental representations that allow us to draw appropriate inferences about the type of entities we encounter in our everyday lives.[9] Concepts do not encompass all mental representations, but are merely a subset of them.[8] The use of concepts is necessary to cognitive processes such as categorization, memory, decision making, learning, and inference.[citation needed]

Concepts are thought to be stored in long term cortical memory,[10] in contrast to episodic memory of the particular objects and events which they abstract, which are stored in hippocampus. Evidence for this separation comes from hippocampal damaged patients such as patient HM. The abstraction from the day’s hippocampal events and objects into cortical concepts is often considered to be the computation underlying (some stages of) sleep and dreaming. Many people (beginning with Aristotle) report memories of dreams which appear to mix the day’s events with analogous or related historical concepts and memories, and suggest that they were being sorted or organised into more abstract concepts. (“Sort” is itself another word for concept, and “sorting” thus means to organise into concepts.)