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Creating Objects and Object Categories for Studying Perception and Perceptual Learning
Published on: November 2, 2012
APPLICATION OF A MODEL OF CATEGORIZING BEHAVIOR
Abstract:
A model for Latent Partition Analysis is proposed and two applications to data arising from sorting tasks are described. The model is based on a possible strategy which subjects might use in sorting a large number of stimuli. The first application is concerned with a judgmental classification of semantic differential scales in conhast to the usual type uf analysis based on responding with the scales to particular concepts. The second application is concerned with the classification by university students of a selection of student behaviors.
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