Two studies explored preschool children's beliefs about the relationship between perceptually based similarity among things and their predicted behaviors by focusing on form-function correspondences. Perceptual similarity, if motivated by intuitive beliefs about correspondences between form and function was found to be sufficient basis for…

Two experiments examined the possibility that children and adults possess a single-object/single-motion intuition. This intuition involves the view that all parts of a rigid object must move at the same speed because they all move together. (RH)