proposal outline

  1. Explain exemplar models
    1. What phenomena does exemplar theory explain
      1. Categorization and speech perception
      2. Recognition and recall
      3. Frequency effects
    2. How does it do so
      1. Events stored as memory traces, ie exemplars
      2. Percepts compared to existing exemplars
      3. Percept categorized based on nearest exemplars
    3. What does it struggle to explain
      1. Non-frequency effects, esp social effects
      2. Category genesis and generalization
  2. Explain REMERGE
    1. What is it
    2. How does it improve on exemplar models
    3. What does it lack
  3. Explain persona construal
    1. What phenomena necessitates a persona construal model?
    2. How does freeman and ambady's model work
    3. How could it improve previous models?
  4. Does adding social info as top-down bias predict memory and processing as found by Zion, Sharese, SK, and Meghan?
  5. Does connecting a persona construal model in place of parameters (as previously) change the pattern of results. If so, how well does it predict indexical ordering?