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Subjects learned two conjunctive concepts utilizing geometric figures in which there were two relevant attributes. An initial positive instance in each problem was followed by three blank-trial stimuli which overlapped the initial instance by exactly two attribute values. The analysis of blank-trial responses indicated that Ss sample adjective-noun hypotheses significantly more often than adjective-adjective hypotheses, where adjective-noun and adjective-adjective describe labels which can be given the cue pairs.
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Penrod, W.C., Nahinsky, I.D. Language patterns in conjunctive concept identification. Psychon Sci 15, 322 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336322
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