Glossary C
Glossary C
Categories (--->Category) means discrete classifications. Many of the mental disorders in the current diagnostic system are presented as categorical in nature, meaning that people are judged either to have the disorder or not have it.
Categories of thought refer to those innate attributes of the mind that Kant postulated to explain subjective experiences we have that cannot be explained in terms of sensory experience alone, like for example - the experiences of time, causality, and space.
Category refers to a grouping of items sharing one or more similarities; an aggregation of people or things that share some common attribute or are related in some way. Moreover, Category refers to a term Bruner used to describe a grouping of related objects or events. In this sense, a category is both a concept and a percept. Bruner also defines it as a rule for classifying things as equivalent. (See Coding system.)
Category format refers to a rating-scale format that usually uses the categories 1 to 10.
Category typicality refers to the idea that some items are more representative of the category prototype than others. Items that are highly typical of a category have more features in common with the category prototype than do less typical items.