Judging the typicality of an instance: Should the category be accessed first?

Ss received instances consisting of 6 descriptors referring to a single person. Ss judged the typicality of each instance when a person's category was activated before the instance was processed, called category-first, or when a category was activated after the instance was processed, called instance-first. The findings are discussed in terms of a model using distributed-memory architecture to represent categories and instances