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categorization  

Definition

  • An organizational strategy for encoding in or retrieving material from memory, consisting of assigning items to classes based on one or more common properties.

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  • classification

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Bousfield, W. A. (1953). The occurrence of clustering in the recall of randomly arranged associates. Journal of General Psychology, 49(2), 229. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1953.9712878

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Cohen, H., & Lefebvre, C. (Eds.). (2017). Handbook of categorization in cognitive science (Second edition). Elsevier.

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-G355R5HB-T

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