ROLES OF FUNCTION, REMINDING, AND VARIABILITY IN CATEGORIZATION BY 3-MONTH-OLD INFANTS
ROLES OF FUNCTION, REMINDING, AND VARIABILITY IN CATEGORIZATION BY 3-MONTH-OLD INFANTS
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DOI:
10.1037/0278-7393.16.4.617
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发表时间:
1990-07-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
ROVEECOLLIER, C
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作者:
GRECO, C;HAYNE, H;ROVEECOLLIER, C
The roles of function, reminding, and exemplar variability in categorization of a physically dissimilar object were studied with 3-month-old infants trained to move a crib mobile by kicking. Performance on a transfer test with a motionless novel object provided evidence of categorization. In Experiments 1 and 2, infants, like adults, initially categorized novel objects on the basis of physical appearance, but only if trained with multiple exemplars, after delays of 1 and 7 days. In Experiment 3, prior knowledge of an object's functional properties overrode physical dissimilarity as the basis for categorization and enabled reminding of the classification response 2 weeks later. In Experiment 4, postevent contingency information overrode physical and functional properties as the basis for categorization. These findings indicate that expectations and goals influence infants' category decisions and raise the possibility that infants of 3 months respond by analogy.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)