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'''Semantic Feature Comparison Model''' is used "to derive predictions about categorization times in a situation where a subject must rapidly decide whether a test item is a member of a particular target category".<ref name=smith>Smith, E. E., Shoben. E. J., and Rips, L. J. (1974). Structure and Process in Semantic Memory: A Feature Model for Semantic Decisions. Psychological Review, 81(3), 214-241214–241.</ref> In this semantic model, there is an assumption that certain occurrences are categorized using its features or attributes of the two subjects that represent the part and the group. A statement often used to explain this model is 'a robin is a bird'. The meaning of the words robin and bird are stored in the memory by virtue of a list of features which can be used to ultimately define their categories, although the extent of their association with a particular category varies.

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