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Direct linkYang, Lee-Xieng; Lewandowsky, Stephan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
The authors present 2 experiments that establish the presence of knowledge partitioning in perceptual categorization. Many participants learned to rely on a context cue, which did not predict category membership but identified partial boundaries, to gate independent partial categorization strategies. When participants partitioned their knowledge,…
Descriptors: Classification, Perception, Cues, Psychological Studies
Rehder, Bob; Hoffman, Aaron B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
An eyetracking study testing D. L. Medin and M. M. Schaffer's (1978) 5-4 category structure was conducted. Over 30 studies have shown that the exemplar-based generalized context model (GCM) usually provides a better quantitative account of 5-4 learning data as compared with the prototype model. However, J. D. Smith and J. P. Minda (2000) argued…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Human Body, Attention Control, Classification
