Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Experimental psychology on word confusion - Less Wrong

11 Post author: lukeprog 14 September 2012 05:44AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 September 2012 11:27:14AM 3 points [-]

Radial categories, prototype theory, typicality effects? Or not what you're looking for?

Comment author: Unnamed 15 September 2012 08:58:17PM 2 points [-]

Other keywords: priming, schemas, essentialism. The psychology research refers to "concepts" rather than "words."

Comment author: lukeprog 15 September 2012 12:21:06AM 1 point [-]

That's some of it, yes. Good point.