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German, Tim P.; Truxaw, Danielle; Defeyter, Margaret Anne – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2007
Artifact knowledge requires integration of information from different areas of human commonsense knowledge--our everyday understanding of object mechanics and our everyday psychology. Here, we address the question of artifact conceptual structure, outlining evidence from tasks involving categorization, function judgments, and problem solving.
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Mass Media, Problem Solving, Children