Revealing Criterial Vagueness in Inconsistencies
Sixty undergraduate students made category membership decisions for each of 132 candidate exemplar-category name pairs (e.g., chess – Sports) in each of two separate sessions. They were frequently inconsistent from one session to the next, both for nominal categories such as Sports and Fish, and ad...
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| description | Sixty undergraduate students made category membership decisions for each of 132 candidate exemplar-category name pairs (e.g., chess – Sports) in each of two separate sessions. They were frequently inconsistent from one session to the next, both for nominal categories such as Sports and Fish, and ad hoc categories such as Things You Rescue from a Burning House. A mixture model analysis revealed that several of these inconsistencies could be attributed to criterial vagueness: participants adopting different criteria for membership in the two sessions. This finding indicates that categorization is a probabilistic process, whereby the conditions for applying a category label are not invariant. Individuals have various functional meanings of nominal categories at their disposal and entertain competing goals for ad hoc categories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2abda50f8a7148e18bf7bfd4fb7ae3352022-12-22T03:08:01ZengThe MIT PressOpen Mind2470-29862019-06-013415110.1162/opmi_a_00025opmi_a_00025Revealing Criterial Vagueness in InconsistenciesSteven Verheyen0Anne White1Paul Égré2Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRSLaboratory for Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU LeuvenInstitut Jean Nicod, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRSSixty undergraduate students made category membership decisions for each of 132 candidate exemplar-category name pairs (e.g., chess – Sports) in each of two separate sessions. They were frequently inconsistent from one session to the next, both for nominal categories such as Sports and Fish, and ad hoc categories such as Things You Rescue from a Burning House. A mixture model analysis revealed that several of these inconsistencies could be attributed to criterial vagueness: participants adopting different criteria for membership in the two sessions. This finding indicates that categorization is a probabilistic process, whereby the conditions for applying a category label are not invariant. Individuals have various functional meanings of nominal categories at their disposal and entertain competing goals for ad hoc categories.https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/opmi_a_00025categorizationvaguenessindividual differencessemantic memoryad hoc categories |
| spellingShingle | Steven Verheyen Anne White Paul Égré Revealing Criterial Vagueness in Inconsistencies Open Mind categorization vagueness individual differences semantic memory ad hoc categories |
| title | Revealing Criterial Vagueness in Inconsistencies |
| title_full | Revealing Criterial Vagueness in Inconsistencies |
| title_fullStr | Revealing Criterial Vagueness in Inconsistencies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Revealing Criterial Vagueness in Inconsistencies |
| title_short | Revealing Criterial Vagueness in Inconsistencies |
| title_sort | revealing criterial vagueness in inconsistencies |
| topic | categorization vagueness individual differences semantic memory ad hoc categories |
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