Category construction

Patterson, Snoddy, & Kurtz (2019) Family Resemblance in unsupervised categorization: A dissociation between production and evaluation.

Though family resemblance (FR) is prevalent in natural kinds, people rarely produce FR solutions in unsupervised lab settings. Here we show that people evaluate FR as superior to unidimensional category organizations in unsupervised settings.

Honke et al. (2015) Promoting transfer and mastery of evolution concepts with category construction

A concept sorting task facilitates mastery and transfer of evolution concepts in 7th grade science.