The participants in that conference have sorted their differences in practical, realistic, honest, good intentions, and civilized manners that helped the conference to arrive at the desired conclusion - it was a perfect model for a reconciliation process.

During the testing stage, participants do not sort the new strings according to an abstract rule; instead they will sort them according to their similarity to the examples stored in memory from the learning stage.

In a series of tasks, participants sort words or images representing a target concept such as race (white/black) and stimuli with known positive/negative valence into two categories (usually indicated by right or left location on a computer screen).

When the participants sorted the ideas, three main categories occurred.