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Comparison and Alignment in Categorization

Description:

Many theories of categorization have included an intuitive role for our ability to detect and judge similarity. Yet, this important role of similarity processing has been disputed. This research adopts a model of similarity processing through structure mapping (Gentner, 1983) to explore its role in similarity processing and categorization. Relational...

Keyword:

psychology, cognition, language, categorization, analogy, comparison, logic, fallacies

Subject:

Cognitive psychology

Creator:

Francisco Maravilla

Contributor:

Dedre Gentner (advisor)

Owner:

Francisco Epimeno Maravilla

Language:

English

Date Uploaded:

08/07/2020

Date Modified:

08/07/2020

Resource Type:

Dissertation