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Direct linkBrandone, Amanda C.; Gelman, Susan A. – Cognition, 2009
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…
Descriptors: Animals, Nouns, Prior Learning, Novels
Taylor, Marianne G.; Rhodes, Marjorie; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 2009
Two studies (N = 456) compared the development of concepts of animal species and human gender, using a switched-at-birth reasoning task. Younger children (5- and 6-year-olds) treated animal species and human gender as equivalent; they made similar levels of category-based inferences and endorsed similar explanations for development in these 2…
Descriptors: Animals, Classification, Environmental Influences, Inferences
