Linear Separability and Concept Learning: Context, Relational Properties, and Concept Naturalness.

Wattenmaker, William P.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ336933

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Publication Date: 1986

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Linear Separability and Concept Learning: Context, Relational Properties, and Concept Naturalness.

Wattenmaker, William P.; And Others

Cognitive Psychology, v18 n2 p158-94 Apr 1986

Four experiments with college undergraduates examine interactions between linearly separable and nonlinearly separable abstract category structures, different knowledge types, and instructions on classification learning tasks. Implications for independent cue models and interactive cue models are discussed. (LMO)

Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Structures, College Students, Concept Formation, Cues, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Learning Processes, Prior Learning, Schemata (Cognition)

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