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Direct linkCasler, Krista; Kelemen, Deborah – Cognition, 2007
From the age of 2.5, children use social information to rapidly form enduring function-based artifact categories. The present study asked whether even younger children likewise constrain their use of objects according to teleo-functional beliefs that artifacts are "for" particular purposes, or whether they use objects as means to any desired end.…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Development, Child Behavior, Object Manipulation
