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Nguyen, Simone P.; Girgis, Helana; Knopp, Jamie – Infant and Child Development, 2019
The present studies (N = 159) investigated children's and adults' preferences for label and property conjunctions for cross-classifiable toys. In Study 1, 4-year-olds, 5-year-olds, and adults participated in a labelling and property attribution task involving experimental toys that belong to two categories and control toys that belong to only one…
Descriptors: Toys, Classification, Preferences, Preschool Children
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Fouquet, Nathalie; Megalakaki, Olga; Labrell, Florence – Infant and Child Development, 2017
We investigated the kinds of biological properties that children aged 3-6 years attribute to animals, plants, and artifacts by administering a property attribution task and eliciting explanations for the resulting property attributions. Findings indicated that, from the age of 3 years, children more frequently attribute properties to animals than…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Animals, Plants (Botany)