Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Horst, Jessica S.
• Oakes, Lisa M.
• Madole, Kelly L.

Titel

What Does It Look Like and What Can It Do? Category Structure Influences How Infants Categorize

Ist Teil von

• Child development, 2005-05, Vol.76 (3), p.614-631

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite a large body of research demonstrating the kinds of categories to which infants respond, few studies have directly assessed how infants' categorization unfolds over time. Four experiments used a visual familiarization task to evaluate 10-month-old infants' (N = 98) learning of exemplars characterized by commonalities in appearance or function. When learning exemplars with a common function, infants initially responded to the common feature, apparently forming a category, and only learned the individual features with more extensive familiarization. When learning exemplars with a common appearance, infants initially learned the individual features and apparently only formed a category with more extensive familiarization. The results are discussed in terms of models of category learning.