Author: Dr Craig McGarty
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: psychology, social, categorization
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-12-07
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0761959548
ISBN-13: 9780761959540

Categorization in Social Psychology offers a major new introduction to the study of categorization, looking especially at links between categorization in cognitive and social psychology. In a highly readable and accessible style, the author covers all the main approaches to categorization in social psychology that a student might come across, including: biased stimulus processing, construct activiation, self-categorization, explanation-based, social judgeability and assimilation//contrast approaches. It is a wide-ranging and up-to-date treatment of concepts from cognitive as well as social ps

Author: Jane A. Chiong
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: schools, children, multiracial, categorization, racial
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1998-05-21
List price: $96.95
ISBN-10: 0897894995
ISBN-13: 9780897894999

Multiracial students have unique needs that are not being met in schools, because teachers and school personnel assume that those needs are the same as those of monoracial minority children. Children of multiple races are, in fact, "invisible" in the schools. On school and federal forms, they are racially categorized based on "one race only," and such categorizations are not limited to documents. Schools and teachers may unknowingly transmit monoracial identity messages to multiracial students, which is problematic for some students who may want to identify with more than one race. Our racial

Authors:Richard J. Crisp, Miles Hewstone,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: categorization, social, multiple
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1841695025
ISBN-13: 9781841695020

’Ethnic cleansing’, ’institutional racism’, and ’social exclusion’ are just some of the terms used to describe one of the most pressing social issues facing today’s societies: prejudice and intergroup discrimination. Invariably, these pervasive social problems can be traced back to differences in religion, ethnicity, or countless other bases of group membership: the social categories to which people belong. Social categorization, how we classify ourselves and others, exerts a profound influence on our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and behaviors. In this vo

Author: Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: categorization, linguistics, studies, prototypes, meanings
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1990-12
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0415036127
ISBN-13: 9780415036122

There are far fewer kinds of elements (such as words) in a natural language than there are kinds of things in the universe. If, therefore, the languages people speak are related to the universe their speakers live in, a primary function of the various kinds of elements constituting a language is to allow the much more varied kinds of things that populate the universe to be categorized in specific ways. A "prototype" approach to linguistic categories is a particular way of answering the question of how this categorization operates. It involves two claims. First, that linguistic categorization e

Author: Jacob M.J. Murre
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: networks, neural, modular, categorization, learning
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1992-10-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0805813381
ISBN-13: 9780805813388

This book introduces a new neural network model called CALM, for categorization and learning in neural networks. The author demonstrates how this model can learn the word superiority effect for letter recognition, and discusses a series of studies that simulate experiments in implicit and explicit memory, involving normal and amnesic patients. Pathological, but psychologically accurate, behavior is produced by "lesioning" the arousal system of these models. A concise introduction to genetic algorithms, a new computing method based on the biological metaphor of evolution, and a demonstration on

Authors:Henri Cohen, Claire Lefebvre,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: science, cognitive, categorization, handbook
Number of Pages: 1136
Published: 2005-12-24
List price: $202.00
ISBN-10: 0080446124
ISBN-13: 9780080446127

Categorization, the basic cognitive process of arranging objects into categories, is a fundamental process in human and machine intelligence and is central to investigations and research in cognitive science. Until now, categorization has been approached from singular disciplinary perspectives with little overlap or communication between the disciplines involved (Linguistics, Psychology, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Cognitive Anthropology). Henri Cohen and Claire Lefebvre have gathered together a stellar collection of contributors in this unique, ambitious attempt to bring toget

Author: Axel Pinz
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: graphics, vision, computer, trends, categorization, foundations, object
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-08-31
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1933019131
ISBN-13: 9781933019130

Object Categorization presents foundations, original research and trends in the field of object categorization by computer vision methods. It provides a review of existing representations, algorithms, systems and databases for visual object categorization. It goes beyond a pure review of the area though, by including original research in categorization, presenting a prototype system for categorization, discussing the various databases and providing experimental results on object categorization and localization in still images. Object Categorization will serve as a valuable reference for s