Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Coins Of The Canadian Dollar, Outline Of Object Recognition, Pattern Matching
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Expert physicians rely on similarity between present case and previous case when making a diagnosis: training expertise = more reliance on non-analytic similarity-based assessment. If it is similar enough, you can make inductions about how the inside of the squash will look like even if it"s the first time you see it, because you have seen another type of squash before. If something has some similarity on the outside, it"ll also have some similarity on the inside: e. g. Similarity is a domain-general construct: process do not depend on a specific king od info. Memory works the same way for all things. Similarity judgment is fast and automatic so that memory retrieval is fast and automatic. Problem with many theories similarity is an elusive construct: still don"t know what it means for 2 objects to be similar. Subjective similarity and a person"s judgement of similarity can be measured.