P335 Cognitive Psychology
Prof. John K. Kruschke


Models of Categorization

REPRESENTATION PROCESS
for
Learning
for
Classifying
Rules strategies for rule induction apply rules
Prototypes update current prototype(s) compare with prototypes
Exemplars memorize exemplars integrate similarities to all exemplars

Some examples of predictions from the three models:

The dashed lines or curves in the figures below indicate the predicted boundary between the two categories. Notice that the three models make different predictions about the boundary.

A question to consider:

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