Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface
the units that were listed did not change in size or type with their recency or remoteness in time to the writing. Thus, for the ...
superordinate (Rosch 1977). That is, the task of using a given concrete noun in a sentence appears to be an indirect method of e ...
Notes Tversky formalizes prototypicality as the member or members of the category with the highest summed similarity to all mem ...
Peterson, M. J., and Graham, S. E. Visual detection and visual imagery.JournalofExperimentalPsy- chology, 1974, 103 , 509–514. P ...
Chapter 11 PhilosophicalInvestigations, Sections 65–78 LudwigWittgenstein Here we come up against the great question that lies ...
I can think of no better expression to characterize these similarities than ‘‘family resemblances’’; for the various resemblanc ...
My meaning would be explained by, say, a drawing and the words ‘‘The ground looked roughly like this.’’ Perhaps I even say ‘‘it ...
‘‘But might there not be such ‘general’ samples? Say a schematic leaf, or a sample ofpuregreen?’’—Certainly there might. But for ...
In such a difficulty always ask yourself: How did welearnthe meaning of this word(‘‘good’’forinstance)?Fromwhatsortofexamples?in ...
Chapter 12 The Exemplar View Edward E. Smith and Douglas L. Medin In this chapter we take up our third view of concepts, the exe ...
classes of events, they tend to retrieve a few exemplars from the relevant classes and base their estimates on these exemplars. ...
be represented by a property description. In short, the representation is explic- itly disjunctive, and the properties of a conc ...
In the proximity model each concept is represented by all of its instances that have been encountered. When a novel test item is ...
A second question about our best-examples assumption is, How does the learner determine the best exemplars? This question is dif ...
3b. The probability that entity X retrieves any specific exemplar is a direct function of the similarity of X and that exemplar. ...
Failure to specify defining featuresThereisnoreasonwhythefeatureofone exemplar should be a feature of other exemplars; that is, ...
Context Model The context model of Medin and Schaffer (1978) differs from the preceding proposal in two critical respects. One c ...
cept learner attends equally to all instances and their dimension values, her final representation should be isomorphic to what ...
In dimensional models, similarity between test item and concept representation has been measured by an additive combination of d ...
that we discussed earlier. Given a fixed set of parameters, one computes simi- larity between test item and exemplar by multiply ...
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