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Direct linkColunga, Eliana; Smith, Linda B. – Developmental Science, 2008
Young children's skilled generalization of newly learned nouns to new instances has become the battleground for two very different approaches to cognition. This debate is a proxy for a larger dispute in cognitive science and cognitive development: cognition as rule-like amodal propositions, on the one hand, or as embodied, modal, and dynamic…
Descriptors: Nouns, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Development, Knowledge Level
Colunga, Eliana; Smith, Linda B. – Psychological Review, 2005
In the novel noun generalization task, 2 1/2-year-old children display generalized expectations about how solid and nonsolid things are named, extending names for never-before-encountered solids by shape and for never-before-encountered nonsolids by material. This distinction between solids and nonsolids has been interpreted in terms of an…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Generalization, Nouns, Toddlers
