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Lombrozo, Tania; Carey, Susan – Cognition, 2006
Teleological explanations (TEs) account for the existence or properties of an entity in terms of a function: we have hearts because they pump blood, and telephones for communication. While many teleological explanations seem appropriate, others are clearly not warranted--for example, that rain exists for plants to grow. Five experiments explore…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Experiments, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence
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Rehder, Bob; Hastie, Reid – Cognition, 2004
One important property of human object categories is that they define the sets of exemplars to which newly observed properties are generalized. We manipulated the causal knowledge associated with novel categories and assessed the resulting strength of property inductions. We found that the theoretical coherence afforded to a category by…
Descriptors: Classification, Logical Thinking, Causal Models, Attribution Theory
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Hirschfeld, Lawrence A. – Cognition, 1997
Responds to John J. Kim's critique of his studies of preschoolers' understanding of race. Maintains that his and others' investigations demonstrate that preschoolers differentiate the pattern of causal reasoning governing transmission and maintenance of racial characteristics from that governing transmission and maintenance of perceptually similar…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Causal Models, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development