Eleanor Rosh
Eleanor Rosch Heider (* 1938 ) is an American psychologist and professor of cognitive psychology at the University of California, Berkeley .
Life
Eleanor Rosch received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969 . With her prototype theory she combined psychological and linguistic research results and promoted the development of prototype semantics . Eleanor Rosch found out that people categorize objects in everyday life less according to abstract criteria, but rather use representative representatives ( prototypes ) as a guide.
For example, penguins, hummingbirds and emus meet the criterion “has feathers”, which means that they can be categorized as birds. Intuitively, however, people tend to categorize according to their proximity to the prototypical representative of this category, e.g. B. a blackbird or pigeon.
Since this distance to the prototype varies, one can describe not only a binary membership (belongs to the category or not) also a gradual membership to a category (trout is a good example of the “fish” category; eels, on the other hand, are rather “bad” representatives ).
Works
- * F. Varela , E. Thompson , E. Rosch: The middle path of knowledge: the relationship between the ego and the world in cognitive science - bridging the gap between scientific theory and human experience . Goldmann, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-442-12514-6 .
See also
Web links
- Brief portrait of the University of Pittsburgh
- Article about Eleanor Rosch in the NZZ Folio magazine
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosh, Eleanor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosch Heider, Eleanor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |