Reevaluating the determinants of category-based induction
| dc.contributor.advisor | Markman, Arthur B. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Griffin, Zenzi | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Legare, Cristine | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Loewenstein, Jeffrey | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Maddox, Todd | en |
| dc.creator | Rein, Jonathan Raymond, 1983- | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-21T17:51:50Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-21T17:51:56Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-11T22:20:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-09-21T17:51:50Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2010-09-21T17:51:56Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-11T22:20:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2010 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2010-09-21T17:51:56Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | What makes one more or less likely to project a novel property from an item to that item’s broader category? Research on category-based induction has documented a consistent typicality effect: typical exemplars promote stronger inferences than atypical exemplars. This work has been largely confined to categories whose central tendencies are the most typical members of the category. Experiments 1 and 2, using natural and artificial categories, showed that central tendencies have greatest induction strength even for categories that are best represented by ideal exemplars. Experiments 3-7 investigate the role of familiarity in induction. Experiments 3 and 4 directly contrast statistical averageness against familiarity through category learning procedures. Experiment 5 creates this contrast through frequency differences across stimuli. Experiments 6 and 7 investigate how the familiarity advantage found in Experiments 3-5 can be modified through fluency manipulations, independent of actual experience. Taken together, these studies suggest that category-based induction is driven largely by a familiarity heuristic. | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-789 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.subject | Categorization | en |
| dc.subject | Reasoning | en |
| dc.subject | Induction | en |
| dc.subject | Category-based induction | en |
| dc.subject | Cognitive psychology | en |
| dc.title | Reevaluating the determinants of category-based induction | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |