... percentage of times that subject selected word pairs related on the basis of conceptual similarity as more similar in meaning than word pairs related on a concrete basis. The analysis indicated that subject were able to overlook the contextual interrelationship existing between word pairs (e.., "school, learn") to isolate interrelationship baesd primarily on conceptual similarity (e.g., "boy, man"). Given the context ... format criteria. Such a methodological strategy, it was judged, resulted in greater functional equivalence in the behavior explained across subgroups than would have bee...

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... by IQ tests (see also Cantor & Kihlstrom, 1987, for an analysis of this issue from a social-cognitive perspective). It would be foolish, of course, to conclude that intellectual ability across its full range is not important to job success. Obviously, a person with serious mental deficiencies cannot be trained to be a nuclear physicist. What can be said is that the ... family, concern over what people thought of them, and ambivalent strivings toward independence. Rather than viewing these as problems to be solved through conceptual analysis and behavioral experimentation, they thought ab...

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... see similarities in people we perceive that belong together and over exaggerate the differences between groups. Tajfel believed this categorisation process was at the heart of all prejudice. He wanted to develop an approach to research that would incorporate cognitive intergroup processes with a more social approach which would take into account the social, cultural and economic variables so often overlooked ... accomplished by adopting a discursive psychological approach. Billig argues that the situated knowledge limited the choices open to Tajfel at that time. Today's world is a very d...

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