Peter Jones L2

Question 1

Prototype theory

Answer 1

New items are compared to prototypes and then catagorised

Question 2

Exemplar theory

Answer 2

We remember all instances of a category - comparing new stimuli to that set

Question 3

Pigeons category learning across images

Answer 3

Novel images of trees, categories of water, people (even specific people), tropical fish, painting styles and discriminated across categories

Question 4

Size of learning sets B

Answer 4

Bhatt, 1988 - larger training sets lead to poorer performance learning training items but better performance on test items

Question 5

Categorisation determined by features H+L

Answer 5

Huber and Lenz, 1993 - stimuli dimensions in faces

Question 6

How do animals classify?

Answer 6

They appear to recognise based on features rather than by learning

Question 7

Alex the parrot

Answer 7

Could respond verbally to same/different questions

Question 8

Why do pigeons comparably struggle with the same/different judgements?

Answer 8

Can perceive sameness but lack salience (Wilson 1985), and prefer individual stimuli, Training helps