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  2. Prototype theory - Wikipedia

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    Prototype theory is a theory of categorization in cognitive science, particularly in psychology and cognitive linguistics, in which there is a graded degree of belonging to a conceptual category, and some members are more central than others.

  3. Representativeness heuristic - Wikipedia

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    Even physicians may be swayed by the representativeness heuristic when judging similarity, in diagnoses, for example. [9] The researcher found that clinicians use the representativeness heuristic in making diagnoses by judging how similar patients are to the stereotypical or prototypical patient with that disorder. [9]

  4. Martin Theodore Orne - Wikipedia

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    In the 1950s, he published the study "The Social Psychology of the Psychological Experiment" which proved that in most experiments, participants tell experimenters what they want to hear in hopes of pleasing the experimenters. [5] Orne became the therapist to the poet Anne Sexton when she was 28. He recorded their sessions and would have Sexton ...

  5. Experimental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, including (among others) sensation, perception, memory, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion; developmental processes, social psychology, and the neural ...

  6. Category:Psychology experiments - Wikipedia

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  7. Is 'Unlocked: A Jail Experiment' real? The story behind the ...

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    Another said the experiment gave them "hope for the prison industrial complex." Of course, some viewers were skeptical at first. "Now watching — Unlocked: A Jail Experiment.

  8. Embodied cognition - Wikipedia

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    Embodied cognition represents a diverse group of theories which investigate how cognition is shaped by the bodily state and capacities of the organism. These embodied factors include the motor system, the perceptual system, bodily interactions with the environment (situatedness), and the assumptions about the world that shape the functional structure of the brain and body of the organism.

  9. Exemplar theory - Wikipedia

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    Exemplar Theory is often contrasted with prototype theory, which proposes another method of categorization.Recently the adoption of both prototypes and exemplars based representations and categorization has been implemented in a cognitively inspired artificial system called DUAL PECCS (Dual Prototypes and Exemplars based Conceptual Categorization System) that, due to this integration, has ...