Generalization (Psychology)
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Conceptual representation and the making of new decisions.

22 Sep 2009 A key feature of an adaptive decision making mechanism is its ability to guide behavior even in new situations. In this issue of Neuron, Kumaran et al. report that conceptual representations, which allow generalization from one situation to another ... Read more...

Multisensory congruency as a mechanism for attentional control over perceptual selection.

14 Sep 2009 The neural mechanisms underlying attentional selection of competing neural signals for awareness remains an unresolved issue. We studied attentional selection, using perceptually ambiguous stimuli in a novel multisensory paradigm that combined ... Read more...

Phonological and visual distinctiveness effects in syllogistic reasoning: implications for mental models theory.

30 Aug 2009 Two experiments are reported in which the representational distinctiveness of terms within categorical syllogisms was manipulated in order to examine the assumption of mental models theory that abstract, spatially based representations underpin ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Generalization (Psychology)'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Conceptual representation and the making of new decisions. 22 Sep 2009
• Multisensory congruency as a mechanism for attentional control over perceptual selection. 14 Sep 2009
• Phonological and visual distinctiveness effects in syllogistic reasoning: implications for mental models theory. 30 Aug 2009
• The conceptual centrality of causal cycles. 30 Aug 2009
• Induction with uncertain categories: When do people consider the category alternatives? 30 Aug 2009
• Cross-language generalization following treatment in bilingual speakers with aphasia: a review. 24 Aug 2009
• Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory in Cluster C personality disorders and the role of depression, worry, and experiential avoidance. 30 Jul 2009
• Criterial noise effects on rule-based category learning: the impact of delayed feedback. 30 Jul 2009
• Categorization reduces the effect of context on hedonic preference. 30 Jul 2009
• Altering category-level beliefs: the impact of level of representation at belief formation and belief disconfirmation. 30 Jul 2009
• Following in the wake of anger: when not discriminating is discriminating. 19 Jul 2009
• And yet they move: the impact of direction of deviance on stereotype change. 6 Jul 2009
• More than a matter of getting 'unstuck': flexible thinkers use more abstract representations than perseverators. 29 Jun 2009
• Absence of overshadowing between a landmark and geometric cues in a distinctively shaped environment: a test of Miller and Shettleworth (2007). 29 Jun 2009
• Potentiation and overshadowing in Pavlovian fear conditioning. 29 Jun 2009
• Predicting category intuitiveness with the rational model, the simplicity model, and the generalized context model. 29 Jun 2009
• Models of quantitative estimations: rule-based and exemplar-based processes compared. 29 Jun 2009
• Estimating distance in real and virtual environments: Does order make a difference? 29 Jun 2009
• Changing your mind. 29 Jun 2009
• Generalization of the event-based Carnevale-Hines integration scheme for integrate-and-fire models. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Generalization (Psychology)'

Definition: The phenomenon of an organism's responding to all situations similar to one in which it has been conditioned.

Descriptor UI: D005793

Alternative terms: Generalization (Psychology); Generalizations (Psychology); Generalization; Generalizations;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.425.357;

History Note: 65; was GENERALIZATION LEARNING 1963-64

Technical Notes: DF: GENERALIZATION