title: Ways of probing situated concepts.
abstract: Two ways of eliciting conceptual content have been to instruct participants to list the intrinsic properties that concept exemplars possess or to report any thoughts that come to mind about the concept. It has been argued that the open, unconstrained probe is better able to elicit the situational information that concepts contain. We evaluated this proposal in two experiments comparing the two probes with regard to the content that they yield for object concepts at the superordinate and basic levels. The results showed that the open probe was better able to elicit situated conceptual knowledge and point out differences in the representations of superordinate and basic concepts.
authors.affiliation: Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, Berlin, Germany. morais@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
authors.forename: Ana Sofia
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Morais
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Olsson
authors.forename: Lael J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Schooler
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*; D014825:Vocabulary; D055815:Young Adult