The most
important unit of representation of knowledge in L.T.M. is a concept. Explain with help of various examples.
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Explanation:
The most important unit of representation of knowledge in long term memory is a concept.
concepts are mental categories for objects and events, which are similar to each other in one or more than one way.
Concepts once formed get organised in categories. eg. birds are a category because there are different types of birds under that category.
Concepts can also get organised in a schema.
They are mental frameworks which represent are knowledge in assumptions about the world.
For example, imagine a schema of a school or a classroom. It will consists of objects like desks or uniforms, etc.
Long term memory holds a very large amount of information which is put to use so, it would be very useful to know how our memory a system organises its contents so that the right information is available at the right time.
Remember, ltm is a result of semantic retrieval tasks.