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Direct linkCook, Claire; Sobel, David M. – Developmental Science, 2011
Four-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adults were asked to make judgments about the reality status of four different types of machines: real machines that children and adults interact with on a daily basis, real machines that children and adults interact with rarely (if at all), and impossible machines that violated a real-world physical or biological…
Descriptors: Equipment, Classification, Young Children, Adults
Nelson, Deborah G. Kemler; Holt, Morghan B.; Egan, Louisa Chan – Developmental Science, 2004
In naming artifacts, do young children infer and reason about the intended functions of the objects? Participants between the ages of 2 and 4 years were shown two kinds of objects derived from familiar categories. One kind was damaged so as to undermine its usual function. The other kind was also dysfunctional, but made so by adding features that…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Classification, Inferences, Thinking Skills
