Journal article
Comparison of two models of similarity judgment
Acta psychologica, Vol.46(3), pp.205-234
1980
DOI: 10.1016/0001-6918(80)90011-6
Abstract
The conventional multidimensional distance model of similarity judgment was compared with a new model in which component differences are weighted and then averaged. To evaluate the models, qualitative and quantitative predictions were derived from Romney and D'Andrade's (1964) componential analysis of American kinship terms, and these predictions were tested by having subjects rate the similarity (in experiment 1) and the difference (in experiment 2) between all possible pairs of 12 kinship terms. In both experiments, violations of qualitative predictions for both a simple distance model and a simple averaging model revealed that the componential analysis was not sufficient to account for the data. However the averaging model was able to account for the data when the dichotomous dimension of lineality used by Romney and D'Andrade was replaced by a continuous dimension of immediacy or closeness of kin. In contrast, no comparable elaboration under the distance model was successful. These results were discussed in terms of the likely psychological processes underlying similarity judgment. © 1980.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Comparison of two models of similarity judgment
- Creators
- Lola L. Lopes - University of Wisconsin–MadisonGregg C. Oden - University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Acta psychologica, Vol.46(3), pp.205-234
- DOI
- 10.1016/0001-6918(80)90011-6
- ISSN
- 0001-6918
- eISSN
- 1873-6297
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV; AMSTERDAM
- Number of pages
- 30
- Grant note
- Wisconsin Research Foundation
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1980
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship ; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984963110202771
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