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Kalish, Michael L.; Newell, Ben R.; Dunn, John C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
It is sometimes supposed that category learning involves competing explicit and procedural systems, with only the former reliant on working memory capacity (WMC). In 2 experiments participants were trained for 3 blocks on both filtering (often said to be learned explicitly) and condensation (often said to be learned procedurally) category…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Classification, Learning, Accuracy
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Sewell, David K.; Lewandowsky, Stephan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012
The concept of attention is central to theorizing in learning as well as in working memory. However, research to date has yet to establish how attention as construed in one domain maps onto the other. We investigate two manifestations of attention in category- and cue-learning to examine whether they might provide common ground between learning…
Descriptors: Attention, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Structures, Associative Learning
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Lewandowsky, Stephan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Working memory is crucial for many higher-level cognitive functions, ranging from mental arithmetic to reasoning and problem solving. Likewise, the ability to learn and categorize novel concepts forms an indispensable part of human cognition. However, very little is known about the relationship between working memory and categorization, and…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Classification, Individual Differences, Attention
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Craig, Stewart; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Little, Daniel R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The assumption in some current theories of probabilistic categorization is that people gradually attenuate their learning in response to unavoidable error. However, existing evidence for this error discounting is sparse and open to alternative interpretations. We report 2 probabilistic-categorization experiments in which we investigated error…
Descriptors: Evidence, Feedback (Response), Associative Learning, Classification
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Catherwood, Di; Boylan, Pamela – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1991
Fifty two- to three-year olds performed paired-associate or control tasks with response items that were related or unrelated. Children in the related task performed more slowly than children in the unrelated task. Findings suggest that children in the related task experienced interference in the acquisition or retrieval of paired-associate items.…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Encoding (Psychology), Foreign Countries
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Hayes, Brett K.; Taplin, John E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1993
Categorization responses of 6 and 11 year olds and adults to test stimuli were examined against predictions derived from 2 models that stressed prototypical features or information about exemplars. For six year olds, only the prototype model fit the data. For the two older groups, both models explained variance in performance. (PAM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries