Editing Similarity (geometry) (section)

==Psychology==
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The intuition for the notion of geometric similarity already appears in human children, as can be seen in their drawings.<ref>{{cite thesis|last=Cox|first=Dana Christine|year=2008|type=Ph.D.|url=https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1762&context=dissertations&httpsredir=1&referer=|title=Understanding Similarity: Bridging Geometric and Numeric Contexts for Proportional Reasoning|location=Kalamazoo, Michigan |publisher=Western Michigan University|isbn=978-0-549-75657-6|s2cid=61331653}}</ref> Certain perceptual categorization models in psychology are based on geometric similarity, assuming that learning involves the storage of specific instances (''i.e.'' of general object specifications) in memory. The categorization of another object ist subsequently based on the similarity of the object to the instances in memory.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory |date=2004 |publisher=Elsevier textbooks |isbn=978-0-08-052277-7 |editor-last=Ross |editor-first=Brian H. |edition=1. Aufl |location=s.l. |page=231}}</ref>