· 2024
Cognition and Categorization
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Short summary
This 1978 book presents a theoretical approach to category formation, viewing objects as feature collections and similarity as a feature-matching process.
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Key points
- Objects are collections of features.
- Similarity is a feature-matching process.
- Theory predicts basic levels of abstraction.
- Theory predicts the existence of category prototypes.
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Abstract
Cognition and categorization /edited by Rosch, E. and Lloyd, B., 1978 The papers in this book derive from a 1976 meeting sponsored by the Social Science Research Council to discuss the nature and principles of category formation. Part I contains 3 discussions of real-world categories, assuming that the people creating and using the systems can judge similarities between stimuli, perceive and process the attributes of a stimulus, and learn. Part II contains discussions of these 3 abilities, presenting a new theoretical approach to similarity, in which objects are viewed as collections of features, and similarity as a feature-matching process. This theory predicts (a) basic levels of abstraction where the ratio of common to distinctive features is maximized and (b) the existence of reference items or category prototypes by which other items are judged. Part III studies concepts of representation that are basic to the previous discussions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Field: Developmental and Educational Psychology
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