PSY-PC 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Object Permanence, Intentionality, 18 Months
12 Dec 2018
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Defining features - think about kates definition for alive. Theory- based: d: these have defining features and probabilities associated with the features. And in addition they have theories , that ideas about why different features are associated together, e. g. causal relations. Think about why your aunts and uncles are nice to you. Conceptual representation - what you know in contrast to perceptual. A method used to assess preschool age childrens concepts is asking children to sort objects along one dimension by putting objects are are alike or similar together. People based on vygotsky"s theory cannot use taxonomies to classify things. 1 year olds did not tend to use thematic classifications, but used taxonomic. The idea that adults and children alike represent most concepts in terms of probabilistic relations between the concept and various features rather than in terms of a few defining features alone. There are four central concepts to this type of representation.
