Whether a prototype or caricature is categorized more easily is predicted to depend on concept interrelatedness: prototype advantage for isolated, caricature advantage for interrelated concepts¶
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q1 i? The framework predicts a prototype advantage for purely isolated concepts and a growing caricature advantage as interrelatedness increases. → Goldstone 1996
Evidence¶
Goldstone 1996¶
Goldstone, R. L. (1996). Isolated and interrelated concepts. Memory & Cognition, 24 (5), 608-628. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03201087
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Theoretical argument from the Prototypes, Caricatures, and Concept Definition section: caricatures fit relational rules like "Concept A is small, relative to Concept B" better than prototypes, so "as the interrelatedness of concepts increases, so should the categorization advantage of the caricature". Experiment 4 was designed to test this, but its results section falls beyond the supplied text, so no empirical support is reported here.
"Thus, if a concept is purely isolated and categorization speed or accuracy is a function of the proximity of the item to the concept's best representation (Rosch & Mervis, 1975), the prototype is expected to be more accurately or quickly categorized than caricatures."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Concepts become more interrelated with practice under discriminate instructions, and more isolated with practice under image instructions — related
- Imagery instructions yield more isolated concepts than discriminating-feature instructions, as shown by greater influence of nondiagnostic features on categorization accuracy — related
- Frequent alternation of categories yields more interrelated concepts than infrequent alternation, as indicated by a diagnosticity-by-alternation interaction — related
- Subjects given image instructions include more nondiagnostic features in their drawings of concepts than subjects given discriminate instructions — related
- Categorization accuracy was significantly higher for infrequently alternated categories than for frequently alternated categories — related
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Whether a prototype or caricature is categorized more easily is predicted to depend on concept interrelatedness: prototype advantage for isolated, caricature advantage for interrelated concepts |
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Whether a prototype or caricature is categorized more easily is predicted to depend on concept interrelatedness: prototype advantage for isolated, caricature advantage for interrelated concepts |
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1996 |
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