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Murphy, Gregory L.; Ross, Brian H. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
In one form of category-based induction, people make predictions about unknown properties of objects. There is a tension between predictions made based on the object's specific features (e.g., objects above a certain size tend not to fly) and those made by reference to category-level knowledge (e.g., birds fly). Seven experiments with artificial…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Classification, Prediction, Experiments