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Discover LudwigThe phrase "superordinate categories" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to classification, taxonomy, or hierarchical structures where broader categories encompass more specific ones. Example: "In the study of animal behavior, researchers often group species into superordinate categories based on their evolutionary relationships."
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Providing superordinate categories (e.g., "A cow is an animal. A cat is an animal").
The eight main types can be grouped into two superordinate categories, social process and semiotic process (Matthiessen 2015).
In the primary task, participants either shadowed words or named the superordinate categories to which words belonged under AV (dynamic face with lips moving) or A-only (static face) speech modes.
He reasoned that in a hierarchical framework, "Superordinate categories based on types of events(as opposed to contexts) provide useful clues about the sorts of sounds that might be subordinate, while features and dimensions are a useful way of describing the differences among members of a particular category".
Some words are very common exemplars of their superordinate categories, and others less so (e.g., "dog" vs "wolf").
Dell'Acqua & Grainger [49] also concluded that only gross semantic information related to superordinate categories could be extracted using very briefly presented, pattern-masked picture as primes.
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That is, even if diseases are natural kinds, the superordinate category of disease may not be.
In metaphor form, 'shark' refers to the superordinate category of predatory creatures that is exemplified by the literal shark" (95).
also improved selection, but these benefits were less robust, and subcategory labels led to greater benefits than superordinate category labels on a subsequent verbal fluency task.
These results support a role for subcategory representations in reducing selection demands to aid self-directed flexibility while suggesting that some children may use superordinate category labels to activate subcategory representations on their own.
As Coffin's (2000) work uses green for both Social Valuation and the superordinate category Appreciation, these two are differentiated here by using for high/low Significance and for positive/negative Appreciation.
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