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Direct linkKalish, Michael L.; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Krushke, John K. – Psychological Review, 2004
Knowledge partitioning is a theoretical construct holding that knowledge is not always integrated and homogeneous but may be separated into independent parcels containing mutually contradictory information. Knowledge partitioning has been observed in research on expertise, categorization, and function learning. This article presents a theory of…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Knowledge Representation, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
Yang, 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
