categorical

adj. referring to a characteristic that is used to classify units, usually individuals or experimental conditions, for the purposes of study. For example, participants may be classified as males or females in a particular study; in this case, sex is categorical.

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Psychology term of the day

May 10th 2024

object-superiority effect

in visual perception tasks, the finding that judgments about a briefly presented line are made more efficiently when the line is part of a drawing of a three-dimensional object than when it is part of a two-dimensional figure. See configural superiority effect; word-superiority effect.