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Deutsch: Typikalität / Español: Tipicidad / Português: Tipicidade / Français: Typicité / Italiano: Tipicità
Typicality in the psychology context refers to the degree to which an object, concept, or behavior is perceived as representative of a particular category or class. It is a fundamental concept in cognitive psychology, particularly in the study of categorization, where it influences how easily and quickly individuals can categorize objects and concepts based on their resemblance to the prototypical or most typical members of a category.
Typicality effect refers to the phenomenon in which experimental subjects are faster to respond to typical instances of a concept, for example, robin for the concept "bird” , than the
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