【摘要】 分类是一项非常重要的认知活动。通过分类活动,人们能够在一定程度上推知某一事物的未知特征,并作出预测。因而分类研究一直是现代心理学研究的重点和热点。回顾分类研究的历程,可把分类研究划分为两个领域。一是从实证的角度探讨分类活动内部的心理机制;一是从理论的角度概括分类活动的研究成果,提出分类的理论依据和模型。这些理论和模型主要围绕相似观和解释观来建构的,这两种观点都有一些实验证据的支持,但也都存在一些不足。因此,近年来,研究者又提出一些新的分类理论与模型。更多还原

【Abstract】 Categorization is one of the important perceptional activities, through which one can deduce the unknown features of things and hence make preditions.Being the subject matter of modem cognitive psychology,categorization research is traditionally divided into two aspects,one is the practical research of psychological mechanism of categorization,the other is the theoretical generalization of scientific research achievements.Based on the insufficiencies both of the above mentioned methods have,researchers put farward in recent years some new categorization theories and models.更多还原