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Title:

When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
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...     »
Keywords:
Categorical,Explanation,Functional,Generalization,Inference,Mechanistic
Journal title:
Cognitive Development
Year:
2022
Journal volume:
61
Journal issue:
March 2021
Pages contribution:
101144
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101144
WWW:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101144
Publisher:
Elsevier Inc.
Print-ISSN:
08852014
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