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Categorization is a type of cognition involving conceptual differentiation between characteristics of conscious experience, such as objects, events, or ideas. It involves the abstraction and differentiation of aspects of experience by sorting and distinguishing between groupings, through classification or typification[1][2] on the basis of traits, features, similarities or other criteria that are universal to the group. Categorization is considered one of the most fundamental cognitive abilities, and it is studied particularly by psychology and cognitive linguistics.
Categorization is sometimes considered synonymous with classification (cf., Classification synonyms). Categorization and classification allow humans to organize things, objects, and ideas that exist around them and simplify their understanding of the world.[3] Categorization is something that humans and other organisms do: "doing the right thing with the right kind of thing." The activity of categorizing things can be nonverbal or verbal. For humans, both concrete objects and abstract ideas are recognized, differentiated, and understood through categorization. Objects are usually categorized for some adaptive or pragmatic purposes.
Categorization is grounded in the features that distinguish the category's members from nonmembers. Categorization is important in learning, prediction, inference, decision making, language, and many forms of organisms' interaction with their environments.
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^Pothos, Emmanuel M.; Wills, Andy J., eds. (2011). "Introduction". Formal Approaches in Categorization. Cambridge University Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780521190480.
^McGarty, Craig; Mavor, Kenneth I.; Skorich, Daniel P. (2015), "Social Categorization", International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, pp. 186–191, doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.24091-9, ISBN 978-0-08-097087-5, retrieved 2022-11-10
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