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What's in a Shape? Children Represent Shape Variability Differently than Adults When Naming Objects.
Peer reviewedAbecassis, Maurissa; Sera, Maria D.; Yonas, Albert; Schwade, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Investigated degree to which two shape dimensions were represented categorically by children and adults when learning object names. Found that adults accepted names more often to objects that fell within proposed shape boundaries than to objects that crossed boundaries. Children were just as likely to generalize names to novel objects that fell…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bias, Children
Download full textFahrmeier, Edward D.; Medin, Douglas L. – 1975
In order to examine the nature of dimensional processing in children, 20 kindergarten and 20 third grade Chinese-American children were asked to make similarity judgments for unidimensional sets of stimuli differing in color (hue), size, and shape, respectively. Age differences were generally confined to the color set. The judgments of the older…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Chinese Americans, Cultural Differences, Dimensional Preference
