Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, Wisconsin.
Mem Cognit. 1977 Mar;5(2):198-204. doi: 10.3758/BF03197362.
Class membership is a fundamental relationship between concepts in semantic memory. Recent research indicates that, class membership may subjectively be a continuous type of relationship. The processing of information about the degree to which items belong to a particular class was investigated in an experiment in which subjects compared two statements describing class membership relationships. The results strongly supported a simple model which describes the judgment process as directly involving subjective degree-of-truthfulness values. The success of the model indicates that the subjects were able to process this kind of fuzzy information in a consistent and systematic manner. Some of the implications of the human competancy for processing fuzzy information are discussed.
类属关系是语义记忆中概念之间的基本关系。最近的研究表明，类属关系在主观上可能是一种连续的关系。在一项实验中，研究了对物品属于特定类别的程度的信息进行处理的过程，在该实验中，被试比较了两个描述类属关系的陈述。结果强烈支持了一个简单的模型，该模型将判断过程描述为直接涉及主观真实性值。该模型的成功表明，被试能够以一致和系统的方式处理这种模糊信息。讨论了人类处理模糊信息的能力的一些含义。
