Graphics Judgment Of Similarity And Difference Judgments Relations And Mechanisms

Similarity is a fundamental aspect of judgement, it is a central aspect of categoryscience. Conventional wisdom and previous research suggest that similarityjudgement and difference judgement are inverses of one another. In recent years, withthe development of similarity models, the research of similarity is more deeply, andthe relation of similarity judgements and difference judgements gradualy becomes ahot conversation in similarity research..The present study includes two experiment. Using the way and theories ofsimilarity study, explored the relation and the mechanism of similarity judgement anddifference judgement. Experiment 1 presented the simulative spore picture pairs bydifferent number of the common attributes. Asked the paticipants to estimate thesimilarity and the difference of the pair pictures by a scale ranging from 1 to 7.Explored the relation of similarity judgement and difference judgement and therelation of similarity judgement, difference judgement and the common attributes.Experiment 2 asked subjects choose from the attributional choice and the relationalchoice which was more similar to the standard and more different from the standard.Analyzed the relation of similarity judgement and difference judgement, and themechanism of the two judgement processes. The final results showed that:First, Similarity and difference judgement were not simply mirror to each other.Second, the RT of difference judgement was longer than the RT of similarityjudgement.Third, the scores of difference judgements were bigger than the similarityjudgement scores, difference judgement was more conversation than the judgement ofsimilarity.Forth, the similarity judgement considered more common attributes than thedifference judgement.Fifth, when the attributes and the relations all present, they took different part insimilarity judgement and difference judgement, with relations being more attended toin similarity judgement and attributes more attended to in difference judgement.