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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. Prototype-matching - Wikipedia

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    In cognitive science, prototype-matching is a theory of pattern recognition that describes the process by which a sensory unit registers a new stimulus and compares it to the prototype, or standard model, of said stimulus. Unlike template matching and featural analysis, an exact match is not expected for prototype-matching, allowing for a more ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Category:Experimental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Experimental psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on experimental design and the study of psychology in research settings. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.

  6. Category:Psychology experiments - Wikipedia

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    Web Experimental Psychology Lab; Web-based experiments; Wike's law of low odd primes; Wizards Project This page was last edited on 26 April 2024, at 00:58 (UTC). Text ...

  7. List of psychological research methods - Wikipedia

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    Experiment, often with separate treatment and control groups (see scientific control and design of experiments). See Experimental psychology for many details. Field experiment; Focus group; Interview, can be structured or unstructured. Meta-analysis; Neuroimaging and other psychophysiological methods; Observational study, can be naturalistic ...

  8. Representativeness heuristic - Wikipedia

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    Please write down your best guesses about the percentage of students who are now enrolled in the following nine fields of specialization." The nine fields given were business administration, computer science, engineering, humanities and education, law, library science, medicine, physical and life sciences, and social science and social work. [10]

  9. Availability heuristic - Wikipedia

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    Many researchers have attempted to identify the psychological process which creates the availability heuristic. Tversky and Kahneman argue that the number of examples recalled from memory is used to infer the frequency with which such instances occur. In an experiment to test this explanation, participants listened to lists of names containing ei