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Direct linkFisher, Anna V.; Matlen, Bryan J.; Godwin, Karrie E. – Cognition, 2011
Prior research suggests that preschoolers can generalize object properties based on category information conveyed by semantically-similar labels. However, previous research did not control for co-occurrence probability of labels in natural speech. The current studies re-assessed children's generalization with semantically-similar labels.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Generalization, Probability, Inferences
Sobel, David M.; Sommerville, Jessica A.; Travers, Lea V.; Blumenthal, Emily J.; Stoddard, Emily – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009
Three experiments examined whether preschoolers recognize that the causal properties of objects generalize to new members of the same set given either deterministic or probabilistic data. Experiment 1 found that 3- and 4-year-olds were able to make such a generalization given deterministic data but were at chance when they observed probabilistic…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Generalization, Probability, Inferences
