Context Effects in the Categorization Task
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- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of General Psychology
- Vol. 104 (2) , 293-302
Abstract
Ss performed a categorization task in which size of target category and semantic relatedness of negative items to the target category were varied. One group of 16 Ss saw high typicality positive items—e.g., bird sparrow (high typicality group); the second group of 16 Ss saw low typicality positive items—e.g., bird peacock (low typicality group). Both groups saw the same negative items. Responses were slower in the low typicality group than in the high typicality group for both positive and negative items. For both groups responses were faster to large than to small target categories for related negative items. These findings support models that attribute categorization effects to decision processes rather than to structural properties of semantic memory.Keywords
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