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Direct linkGelman, Susan A.; Davidson, Natalie S. – Cognitive Psychology, 2013
One important function of categories is to permit rich inductive inferences. Prior work shows that children use category labels to guide their inductive inferences. However, there are competing theories to explain this phenomenon, differing in the roles attributed to conceptual information vs. perceptual similarity. Seven experiments with 4- to…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Preschool Children, Inferences, Classification
Cimpian, Andrei; Gelman, Susan A.; Brandone, Amanda C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Under what circumstances do people agree that a kind-referring generic sentence (e.g., "Swans are beautiful") is true? We hypothesised that theory-based considerations are sufficient, independently of prevalence/frequency information, to lead to acceptance of a generic statement. To provide evidence for this general point, we focused on…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Sentences, Thinking Skills, Theories
