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Studies on topics as diverse as inductive reasoning, social cognition, and lexical categories indicate that the function of representativeness or typicality is increased generalization-prototypes show increased generalization to other members of the category, relative to nonprototypes.
“Thus, studies on topics as diverse as inductive reasoning, social cognition, and lexical categories indicate that the function of representativeness or typicality is increased generalization-prototypes show increased generalization to other members of the category, relative to nonprototypes.”
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- Authors
- Mervis, C. B., & Pani, J. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Venue
- Cognitive Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1980-10
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 496-522
- ISSN
- 0010-0285 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2028495719
- Cited by
- 172
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 4.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognitive Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- category acquisition, exemplar-based categorization, object categories, category names, word production, conceptual structure, children's language development
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child, Preschool, Discrimination Learning, Female, Form Perception, Generalization, Psychological, Humans, Male
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