TY - JOUR
AU - Minda, John Paul
AB - Recent ideas about category learning have favored exemplarprocesses over prototype processes. However, research has focused onsmall, poorly differentiated categories and on task-finalperformances—both may highlight exemplar strategies. Thus, weevaluated participants' categorization strategies and standardcategorization models at successive stages in the learning ofsmaller, less differentiated categories and larger, moredifferentiated categories. In the former case, the exemplar modeldominated even early in learning. In the latter case, the prototypemodel had a strong early advantage that gave way slowly. Alternativemodels, and even the behavior of individual parameters withinmodels, suggest a psychological transition from prototype-based toexemplar-based processing during category learning and show thatdifferent category structures produce different trajectories oflearning through the larger space of strategies.
TI - Prototypes in the Mist: The Early Epochs of Category Learning
JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
DO - 10.1037/0278-7393.24.6.1411
DA - 1998-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/prototypes-in-the-mist-the-early-epochs-of-category-learning-WwhlbufC3w
SP - 1411
EP - 1436
VL - 24
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -