Category representation for classification and feature inference

Johansen, Mark K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6429-1976 and Kruschke, John K. 2005. Category representation for classification and feature inference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 31 (6) , pp. 1433-1458. 10.1037/0278-7393.31.6.1433

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Abstract

This research’s purpose was to contrast the representations resulting from learning of the same categories by either classifying instances or inferring instance features. Prior inference learning research, particularly T. Yamauchi and A. B. Markman (1998), has suggested that feature inference learning fosters prototype representation, whereas classification learning encourages exemplar representation. Experiment 1 supported this hypothesis. Averaged and individual participant data from transfer after inference training were better fit by a prototype than by an exemplar model. However, Experiment 2, with contrasting inference learning conditions, indicated that the prototype model was mimicking a set of label-based bidirectional rules, as determined by the inference learning task demands in Experiment 1. Only the set of rules model accounted for all the inference learning conditions in these experiments.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	classification and/versus inference learning, categorization, category learning, category representation, predictive inference
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	0278-7393
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2022 09:29
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3333

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