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“Commitment” distinguishes between rules and similarity: A developmental perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Gil Diesendruck
Gil Diesendruck*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israelhttp://www.biu.ac.il/faculty/gdiesendruck/
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Abstract

A qualitative difference between Rules and Similarity in categorization can be described in terms of “commitment”: Rules entail it, Similarity does not. Commitment derives from people's knowledge of a domain, and it is what justifies people's inferences, selective attention, and dismissal of irrelevant information. Studies show that when children have knowledge, they manifest these aspects of commitment, thus overcoming Similarity.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 21 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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