{"pk":33061,"title":"Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Huma n Minds: People Care but Concept Learning Models do Not","subtitle":null,"abstract":"ople may be biased to leam categories which not only \ncapture structure in the environment but organize this \nknowledge in a manner easy to use in reasoning. Concepts \norganized to contrast consistently on the same attributes \nas sister categories within a hierarchy may be particularly \nuseful in guiding induction. W e assess whether systems of \nnovel categories organized in this maimer were also easier \nto leam. Supervised concept learning was dramatically \neasier in the consistent over inconsistent contrast \ncondition. W e tested whether several models of concept \nlearning would show sensitivity to consistent contrast, as \npeople did, including assessment of a model designed to \nuse information about consistent contrast, TWILIX. None \nof the models tested (ALCOVE, rational analysis, and \nTWILIX ) showed muc h sensitivity to the \nConsistent/Inconsistent contrast. People may flexibly \nadjust their learning strategy to capitalize on simple \nregularities when available, in a manner not incorporated \nin these concept learning models.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gr9v2db","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Dorrit","middle_name":"","last_name":"Billman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Davi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Davila","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33061/galley/24122/download/"}]}