Category learning and conceptual change in children

儿童的类别学习和概念转变

• 批准号: DP0344436
• 负责人: Prof Brett Hayes
• 金额: $ 11.86万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2004-01-20 至 2007-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0344436
• 关键词: Category; learning; conceptual; change; children

Fundamental to children's cognitive development is the ability to form concepts and generalize beyond direct experience. This project examines the effect of pre-existing beliefs and new empirical observations on concept learning by children. The cognitive processes involved when children of various ages integrate these different sources of information to form new concepts will be investigated in several knowledge domains. In addition to addressing key theoretical questions about the role of exemplar diversity and sub-typing processes in concept learning the project will develop and evaluate innovative techniques for teaching science concepts to young children.

儿童认知发展的基础是形成概念和超越直接经验的概括能力。本研究旨在探讨先前存在的信念和新的经验观察对儿童概念学习的影响。 当不同年龄的儿童整合这些不同的信息来源，形成新的概念的认知过程将在几个知识领域进行调查。除了解决概念学习中范例多样性和分型过程的作用的关键理论问题外，该项目还将开发和评估向幼儿教授科学概念的创新技术。