Before revision: Bird with earthworm: Shepard gives example of bird using "generalization," based on experience with one previous worm, to decide if another worm is edible.The universal law of generalization is a theory of cognition originally posited in 1987 by Roger Shepard stating that the probability of a response to one stimulus being generalized to another is a function of the “distance” between the two stimuli in a psychological space.
After revision: Bird with earthworm: Shepard gives example of bird using "generalization," based on experience with one previous worm, to decide if another worm is edible.The universal law of generalization is a theory of cognition stating that the probability of a response to one stimulus being generalized to another is a function of the “distance” between the two stimuli in a psychological space.