New School for Social ResearchCategory refers to the frequency with which a superordinateis given to a particular instance; refers to the frequencywith which an instance is given to a particular category. Two experimentsindependently varied category dominance and instance dominance in an effortto determine the extent to which each variable predicted the speed with which5s could decide whether a word was a member of a verbal category. The resultsshowed that reaction times were sensitive to the order of presentation of theword and category: When the category preceded the word, instance dominancewas more effective (w
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Elizabeth F. Loftus (1973) studied this question.