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Titel:

When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations

Dokumenttyp:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Autor(en):
Vasil, Ny; Ruggeri, Azzurra; Lombrozo, Tania
Abstract:
Explanations highlight inductively rich relationships that support further generalizations: if a knife is sharp because it is for cutting, we can infer that other things for cutting might also be sharp. Do children see explanations as good guides to generalization? We asked 108 4- to 7-year-old children to evaluate mechanistic, functional, and categorical explanations of object properties, and to generalize those properties to novel objects on the basis of shared mechanisms, functions, or catego...     »
Stichworte:
Categorical,Explanation,Functional,Generalization,Inference,Mechanistic
Zeitschriftentitel:
Cognitive Development
Jahr:
2022
Band / Volume:
61
Heft / Issue:
March 2021
Seitenangaben Beitrag:
101144
Volltext / DOI:
doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101144
WWW:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101144
Verlag / Institution:
Elsevier Inc.
Print-ISSN:
08852014
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