Book chapter
7 Mediating associations, essentialism, and nonsimilarity-based categorization
Advances in Psychology, pp.111-133
Elsevier Science & Technology
1996
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4115(06)80106-8
Abstract
The chapter discusses mediating associations, essentialism, and nonsimilarity-based categorization. It describes a type of theory-based model (the essentialist view) that is currently dominant in the developmental literature and then critically evaluates research adduced to support the essentialist model. A mediational model is elaborated in an attempt to account for nonsimilarity-based categorization. The chapter describes research with humans and animals that documents the effectiveness of common experience in creating classes that go beyond perceptual resemblance. The results of new research on response mediation, which act as a basis for categorization behavior in children, are also described. The chapter also discusses the role of perceptual and nonperceptual processes in categorization and describes the plans for future research. The chapter considers an approach that relies on mediation via learned associations. According to classic models of mediation, internal stimulus and response cues become associated with particular external objects or events. These mediating cues may then guide later behavior.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- 7 Mediating associations, essentialism, and nonsimilarity-based categorization
- Creators
- Suzette L AstleyEdward A Wasserman
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Advances in Psychology, pp.111-133
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science & Technology
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0166-4115(06)80106-8
- ISSN
- 0166-4115
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1996
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070881102771
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