The cognitive structure of a social structure.

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"A paired-associate learning experiment was performed in which men's names were the stimuli and the labels freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior were the responses . . . Ss learned most rapidly to apply the labels freshman and senior correctly, a result that was interpreted as end-anchoring. The errors . . . Ss made during learning were patterned in such a way as to demonstrate generalization gradients for each label. On the supposition that the frequency of confusions of labels was inversely related to the psychological distance between them, it was determined that psychologically the labels fell on a single dimension, and that the distance from freshman to sophomore was largest . . . from sophomore to junior, shortest . . . from junior to senior of intermediate size." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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