Availability and category-frequency estimation

• Published in: Memory & cognition Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 301 - 312
• Main Authors: Bruce, Darryl, Hockley, William E., Craik, Fergus I. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Austin, TX Psychonomic Society 01.05.1991; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Attention; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition & reasoning; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Hypotheses; Learning. Memory; Male; Memory; Mental Recall; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Semantics; Social research; Taxonomy; Verbal Learning; Vocabulary; Human; Stimulus frequency; Estimation; Memory; Young adult; Cognition; Categorization; Elderly; Cued recall

Individuals judged how often examples of taxonomic categories had occurred in a study list. An availability hypothesis was tested--that frequency estimates are based on the retrieval of instances. Cued (by category names) recall of the examples served as an index of availability. The hypothesis was...