Passer au contenu principal

Accueil / Cognitive psychology of human memory (CogMemo thesaurus)

Cognitive psychology of human memory (CogMemo thesaurus)

A-Z

Hiérarchie

Groupes

Nouveautés

phenomenon > memory phenomenon > category size effect

Terme préférentiel

category size effect

A memory phenomenon observed when the decision time in a sentence verification task is shorter for sentences about a member of a smaller semantic category (e.g., a canary is a bird) compared to a larger category (e.g., a canary is an animal).

memory phenomenon

semantic memory

Suppose that the following two sentences are to be verified: 1. The canary is a bird; 2. The canary is an animal. The decision time is shorter for the first sentence: the Bird category is less extensive than the Animal category. There are cases where the reaction time is shorter when the decision concerns the membership of a larger category: the reversal category size effect.

Référence(s) bibliographique(s)

• Collins, A. M., & Quillian, M. R. (1970). Does category size affect categorization time? Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 9(4), 432–438. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(70)80084-6

• Document type: empirical study

• Access: closed

Créateur

Frank Arnould

A pour méthode(s) d'étude

sentence verification task

effet de dimension de la catégorie

français
effet de taille de la catégorie

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-Z65L5PQD-M

Télécharger ce concept :

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Date de création 04/12/2017, dernière modification le 12/03/2025