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A prototype is a6/7/2023 ![]() Some prototype models, for example, assume that the similarity of an item to the prototype of a category is an exponentially decaying function of the psychological distance (or squared distance) between them ( Nosofsky, 1987, 1992). Categorization is then a function of how similar the category’s prototype is to the object to be categorized. Prototype models assume that for each category people retain in memory a single specific example (the prototype), and that category members in the world fall in a distribution around the prototype ( Fried & Holyoak, 1984 Reed, 1972). ![]() ![]() Krynski, in Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 2013 2.1.1 Prototype Models
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