Affordances and Categories: the Dynamics of the Compatibility Effect During the Learning of Perceptive Categories

Student: Nosov Artem

Educational Programme: Psychology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

In the study, subjects were asked to perform the compatibility effect on the material of artificial images of frying pans. The effect of compatibility allowed to evaluate the automatic activation of motor actions associated with the functional use of the object (Tucker, Ellis, 1998). Before performing this task, some of the subjects were trained to distinguish the images of the pans by three groups along the height of their walls. The influence of categorical representation on the compatibility effect was estimated, by comparing the magnitude of the effect on examples occupying different positions in the structure of the generated category. Analysis of the results showed that the compatibility effect is not observed on typical examples of the category (easily categorized in the learning process) and is strongly pronounced in boundary examples (difficult to categorize).

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