PSYC 3030 Study Guide - Eleanor Rosch, Central Tendency, Hierarchical Organization
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Evidence comes from sentence verification tasks. (the further up you have to climb in the hierarchy the longer it takes for you to verify the sentence) this does not explain typicality effects. List-type organization of defining (birds-living thing, has wings, lays eggs, breathes. ) and characteristic (penguin-waddles, swims) features. The defining features are common to all members of the category. The more similar objects result in shorter response times. This does explain typicality effects, as well as reverse typicality effects. (a pencil is a bird) We don"t have things that are domestic or not, we have gradations of size, domesticity, etc. The shorter connections between two objects, the more similar the objects are. This implies that different people are going to have different networks of similarity experts. It explains typicality effects, reverse typicality effects, and continuous properties. It can also account for data from a completely different literature. You get a prime, and then are shown a target word.
