Nothing compares: Unraveling learning task effects in judgment and categorization.

In judgment and categorization, the task is to infer the criterion value of an object based on cues. The cognitive mechanisms underlying such inferences are often distinguished in terms of whether they rely on an abstracted cue-criterion rule or on retrieving exemplars. The use of cue-based and exemplar-based strategies (and the associated generalization ability) has been shown to be influenced by how people had previously learned about the...