Thematic relations in adults' concepts
Thematic relations in adults' concepts
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DOI：
10.1037/0096-3445.130.1.3
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发表时间：
2001-03-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Murphy, GL
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作者：
Lin, EL;Murphy, GL
概念可以通过其成员的相似性来组织，形成一种类型（如动物），也可以通过其在场景或事件中的外部关系来组织（如蛋糕和蜡烛）。后一种类型的关系被称为主位关系，经常被发现是儿童分类的基础，而不是成人分类的基础。然而，10个实验发现，当主题关系有意义且显著时，它们对成人的类别构建（排序）、归纳推理和类别隶属性的验证有显著影响。作者得出结论，概念与场景和事件的知识密切相关，这些知识在成年人的概念表征中起着重要作用。
Concepts can be organized by their members' similarities, forming a kind (e.g., animal), or by their external relations within scenes or events (e.g., cake and candles). This latter type of relation, known as the thematic relation, is frequently found to be the basis of children's but not adults' classification. However, 10 experiments found that when thematic relations are meaningful and salient, they have significant influence on adults' category construction (sorting), inductive reasoning, and verification of category membership. The authors conclude that concepts function closely with knowledge of scenes and events and that this knowledge has a role in adults' conceptual representations.