Changes in Beliefs about Category Homogeneity and Variability across Childhood

Autor/in	Brandone, Amanda C.
Titel	Changes in Beliefs about Category Homogeneity and Variability across Childhood
Quelle	In: Child Development, 88 (2017) 3, S.846-866 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.12616
Schlagwörter	Beliefs; Change; Classification; Logical Thinking; Children; Adults; Intuition; Age Differences; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Wandel; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Child; Kind; Kinder; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	Effective category-based induction requires understanding that categories include both fundamental similarities between members and important variation. This article explores 4- to 11-year-olds' (n = 207) and adults' (n = 49) intuitions about this balance between within-category homogeneity and variability using a novel induction task in which participants predict the distribution of a property among members of a novel category. Across childhood, children learned to recognize variability within categories--showing increasing sensitivity to the role of property type and domain in constraining inferences. Children below the age of 6 showed evidence for a domain-general assumption that categories are homogeneous--generalizing properties broadly to 100% of category members. These studies support important developmental changes in category representations that may influence category-based induction. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01