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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"family resemblance"”.
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A study and development of Bayesian exemplar based models
… anddevelop a new model, called FReBE, that uses Family Resemblance andBayesian networks for developing an Exemplar based model.In the thesis, the broad area of research is stated and the areas ofbackground work to be studied are identified and reviewed. An exemplar basedmodel based on family …
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Making probabilistic relational categories learnable
… categories with a probabilistic (i.e., family resemblance) structure. In Experiment 1, we investigated interventions hypothesized to facilitate learning family-resemblance relational categories. Changing the description of the task from learning about categories to choosing the “winning” …
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Playing with Aesthetics in Art Museums
… museum visitors. Built upon a substantiated family resemblance between art and play experiences, the study synthesizes a typology of aesthetic theories, ten germane tenets of game design, and a psychographic portrait of the "archetypal" museum visitor to create a practical framework for …
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Authenticity and the problem of human augmentation
… authenticity based on Wittgenstein's concept of family resemblance and use it to evaluate whether particular augmentation procedures are authentic, inauthentic, or entirely neutral.
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Extracting Prototypes From Lexical Feature Norms for Settlement Concepts
… revealed featural prototypes and an overall family resemblance structure. To probe the effects of regional context on conceptual structure, subsequent cluster analyses used a subset of participants who were long-term residents of Canada or the United States. Prototypical features varied …
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The role of competing tasks, level of knowledge, and personal prototypes in performance appraisal
… 2 (presence/absence of competing task) X 2 (high family resemblance prototype/low family resemblance prototype) between subjects design with level of knowledge as a covariate. Eighty experienced carpentry workers and construction laborers from Southern Virginia were the subjects. The subjects were …
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Effects of background knowledge on category construction
… Although natural categories seem to have a family resemblance (FR) structure, subjects rarely construct FR categories in the sorting task. There is some evidence that subjects will construct FR categories when the features of the instances can be integrated into a coherent, meaningful …
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A two-stage model of category construction
… natural categories are organized in terms of a family resemblance (FR) principle. However, Medin, Wattenmaker, and Hampson (1987) have shown that people do not create categories according to the FR principle in free sorting tasks, given exemplars consisting of independent dimensions. A two-stage …
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Ο Ρόλος των podcast στην Επικοινωνία της Φύσης της Επιστήμης
… το μοντέλο της Οικογενειακής Ομοιότητας (Family Resemblance Approach – FRA) ως θεωρητικό πλαίσιο και πραγματοποιήθηκε ανάλυση περιεχομένου σε ένα δείγμα 27 επεισοδίων από πέντε διαδεδομένα SP. Τα αποτελέσματα καταδεικνύουν μια ισορροπία στην αναπαράσταση των δύο συστημάτων του FRA (55,7% …
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A Thing Is What We Say It Is: Referential Communication and Indirect Category Learning
… (simple) rule predicted one function, while a family resemblance (complex) sub-structure predicted the other function. The function-learning task yielded function prediction data. In addition, each learner worked individually to sort the creatures (pre- and post-function learning) and to …
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The explorer in English fiction
… peoples. There is, as it turns out, a strong family resemblance between the novels that fall into this category whether they belong, like Robinson Crusoe, Coral Island or Lord of the Flies, to the "desert island" tradition where castaways have exploration thrust upon them or present, as in the …
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Tracing fifth-grade students' epistemologies in modeling through their participation in a model-based curriculum unit
… practices refer to practices that have family resemblance to scientists' professional practices and simultaneously are pedagogically accessible and useful to students. In this study, I propose development of students' epistemic agency as an overarching goal for this practice-based …
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The Explorer in English Fiction
… peoples. There is, as it turns out, a strong family resemblance between the novels that fall into this category whether they belong, like Rohinson Crusoe, Coral Island or Lord of the Flies, to the "desert island" tradition where castaways have exploration thrust upon them or present, as in the …