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HOW REPRESENTATIVE ARE CONCEPT ATTAINMENT EXPERIMENTS? *
Author(s) -
WETHERICK N. E.,
DOMINOWSKI R. L.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1976.tb01513.x
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , social psychology , management , economics
Two experiments are reported which differ from orthodox concept attainment experiments in employing tasks in which the number of attributes exemplified by each instance is clearly larger than the number about which information is available and in which there is no guarantee that a solution will be found in terms of the attributes about which information was presented initially. The results suggest that the orthodox task fails in important respects to represent the corresponding real‐world activity.