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Publication Date: 2009-Oct
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Decision-Tree Models of Categorization Response Times, Choice Proportions, and Typicality Judgments
Lafond, Daniel; Lacouture, Yves; Cohen, Andrew L.
Psychological Review, v116 n4 p833-855 Oct 2009
The authors present 3 decision-tree models of categorization adapted from T. Trabasso, H. Rollins, and E. Shaughnessy (1971) and use them to provide a quantitative account of categorization response times, choice proportions, and typicality judgments at the individual-participant level. In Experiment 1, the decision-tree models were fit to reaction time and choice proportion data from a study reported by A. L. Cohen and R. M. Nosofsky (2003). In Experiment 2, participants were also asked to provide typicality ratings for each stimulus. A process-tracing method called the "4-questions game" (Y. Sayeki, 1969) was used in a posttest phase to identify a decision tree for each participant. In both experiments, the decision-tree models explained a very high proportion of variance in the data and compared favorably with 2 leading exemplar models. (Contains 15 footnotes, 11 tables, and 14 figures.)
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Classification, Models, Statistical Analysis, Games, Generalization, Evaluation Methods, Concept Formation
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