Describe the three hierarchical categories that we use to organize our mental concepts
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
?Superordinate category: The highest, most general level of a concept
Basic level category: The intermediate level of categorization that seems to be the level that we use most to think about our world
Subordinate category: The lowest level of categorization, which contains concepts that are less general and more specific than those at the basic level
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