PMID- 22545856 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20211021 IS - 1939-0599 (Electronic) IS - 0012-1649 (Print) IS - 0012-1649 (Linking) VI - 48 IP - 3 DP - 2012 May TI - Disentangling similarity judgments from pragmatic judgments: Response to Sloutsky and Fisher (2012). PG - 901-6 AB - Sloutsky and Fisher (2012) attempt to reframe the results presented in Noles and Gelman (2012) as a pure replication of their original work validating the similarity, induction, naming, and categorization (SINC) model. However, their critique fails to engage with the central findings reported in Noles and Gelman, and their reanalysis fails to examine the key comparison of theoretical interest. In addition to responding to the points raised in Sloutsky and Fisher's (2012) critique, we elaborate on the pragmatic factors and methodological flaws present in Sloutsky and Fisher (2004) that biased children's similarity judgments. Our careful replication of that study suggests that, rather than measuring the influence of labels on judgments of perceptual similarity, the original design measured sensitivity to the pragmatics of task demands. Together, the results reported in Noles and Gelman and the methodological problems highlighted here represent a serious challenge to the validity of the SINC model specifically and the words-as-features view more generally. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). FAU - Noles, Nicholaus S AU - Noles NS AD - Department of Psychology. FAU - Gelman, Susan A AU - Gelman SA LA - eng GR - R01 HD036043/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HD036043-12/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States GR - R56 HD036043/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Dev Psychol JT - Developmental psychology JID - 0260564 PMC - PMC3342029 MID - NIHMS359126 EDAT- 2012/05/02 06:00 MHDA- 2012/05/02 06:01 PMCR- 2013/05/01 CRDT- 2012/05/02 06:00 PHST- 2012/05/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/05/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/05/02 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2013/05/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 2012-11363-010 [pii] AID - 10.1037/a0027831 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Dev Psychol. 2012 May;48(3):901-6. doi: 10.1037/a0027831.