Rule-based extrapolation: A continuing challenge for exemplar models

Authors: Denton, Stephen E.; Kruschke, John K.; Erickson, Michael A.

Source: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 15, Number 4, August 2008 , pp. 780-786(7)

Publisher: Psychonomic Society Publications

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Abstract:

Erickson and Kruschke (1998, 2002) demonstrated that in rule-plus-exception categorization, people generalize category knowledge by extrapolating in a rule-like fashion, even when they are presented with a novel stimulus that is most similar to a known exception. Although exemplar models have been found to be deficient in explaining rule-based extrapolation, Rodrigues and Murre (2007) offered a variation of an exemplar model that was better able to account for such performance. Here, we present the results of a new rule-plus-exception experiment that yields rule-like extrapolation similar to that of previous experiments, and yet the data are not accounted for by Rodrigues and Murre's augmented exemplar model. Further, a hybrid rule-and-exemplar model is shown to better describe the data. Thus, we maintain that rule-plus-exception categorization continues to be a challenge for exemplar-only models.

Document Type: Short communication

DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.4.780

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