Differences in preschoolers' and adults' use of generics about novel animals and artifacts: a window onto a conceptual divide.
Differences in preschoolers' and adults' use of generics about novel animals and artifacts: a window onto a conceptual divide.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.cognition.2008.08.005
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发表时间:
2009-01
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影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Gelman SA
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文献类型:
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作者:
Brandone AC;Gelman SA
Children and adults commonly produce more generic noun phrases (e.g., Birds fly) about animals than artifacts. This may reflect differences in participants' generic knowledge about specific animals/artifacts (e.g., dogs/chairs), or it may reflect a more general distinction. To test this, the current experiments asked adults and preschoolers to generate properties about novel animals and artifacts (Experiment 1: Real animals/artifacts; Experiments 2-3: Matched pairs of maximally similar novel animals/artifacts). Data demonstrate that even without prior knowledge about these items, the likelihood of producing a generic is significantly greater for animals than artifacts. These results leave open the question of whether this pattern is the product of experience and learned associations or instead a set of early-developing theories about animals and artifacts.
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4
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通讯作者:
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