Developmental psychology, 1997-05, Vol.33 (3), p.396-407
1997
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- Titel
- By Land or by Sea: The Role of Perceptual Similarity in Infants' Categorization of Animals
- Ist Teil von
- Developmental psychology, 1997-05, Vol.33 (3), p.396-407
- Ort / Verlag
- Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 1997
- Quelle
- Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- In 3 experiments, the authors used an object-examining task to investigate the role of perceptual similarity in infants' categorization. In Experiment 1, infants were familiarized with a set of either perceptually similar or perceptually variable exemplars from 1 category and tested with novel exemplars from both categories. Ten-month-olds did not respond to the category in either condition, and 13-month-olds responded categorically in both conditions but somewhat differently in the 2 conditions. Experiment 2 showed that when 10-month-olds were familiarized with similar exemplars but not with variable exemplars, they responded to the categorical distinction when given tests with typical exemplars. Experiment 3 established that 10-month-olds could differentiate among the exemplars. These results suggest that the perceptual similarity of the exemplars influences infants' recognition of categorical distinctions.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0012-1649eISSN: 1939-0599DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.33.3.396Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_79015346
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Age Differences, Animals, Attention, Biological and medical sciences, Categorization, Child development, Classification, Classification (Cognitive Process), Cognition & reasoning, Concept Formation, Developmental psychology, Discrimination Learning, Factors, Familiarization, Female, Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology, Human, Humans, Infant, Infants, Learning, Male, Newborn. Infant, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Perceptual Development, Perceptual similarity, Problem Solving, Psychology, Child, Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry, Psychology. Psychophysiology, Sensory perception, Stimulus Similarity, Visual Discrimination, Visual Perception