Similarity Processing Depends on the Similarities Present: Effects of Relational Prominence in Similarity and Analogical Processing
Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Several studies have shown that similarity judgements involve a process of structural alignment akin to analogical mapping.Some research has shown that performing a similarity judgement task produces more relational responding in a subsequent cross-mapping task, suggesting that similarity necessarily uses structural alignment.However, other research has shown that this effect disappears when procedural/material manipulations fail to emphasise the relational aspects of similar scenes.The present study confirms the latter findings showing that if relational similarities are less prominent in a material set then subjects respond in an object-based rather than a relational way.Importantly, these results show that similarity processing does not by necessity make use of structural alignment but that the similarity processing adopted is pluralistic and depends on properties of the presented materials.
Authors: Mark T. Keane, Deirdre Hackett, Jodi L. Davenport
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2620568479