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Direct linkSmith, J. David; Minda, John Paul; Washburn, David A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2004
In influential research, R. N. Shepard, C. I. Hovland, and H. M. Jenkins (1961) surveyed humans' categorization abilities using tasks based in rules, exclusive-or (XOR) relations, and exemplar memorization. Humans' performance was poorly predicted by cue-conditioning or stimulus-generalization theories, causing Shepard et al. to describe it in…
Descriptors: Memorization, Classification, Cognitive Ability
