Conceptual development
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- Created on: 20-02-20 19:11
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- Conceptual development
- Concept
- Philosophy
- Constituents of thought
- Cognitive psychology
- General ideas
- allow us to organise things
- similarity
- Philosophy
- Category structures
- Hierarchical
- Prototypicality
- Abstraction
- How does the hierarchy of concepts develop?
- Rosch, 1970s
- Bornstein & Arterberry (2010)
- Empiricist account
- Infants form categories using perceptual information
- Quinn, 1987
- 3 months old
- 6 squares, 6 squares and 6 triangles
- novel diamond
- Perceptual cues
- Basic visual features
- Higher level visual features
- Auditory cues
- Touch / texture
- Perceptual cues vs. living things (Pauen, 2002)
- Animals vs. furniture
- Infants notice novel item in familiar category and a novel category
- Even with artificial exemplars
- Empiricist Perspective
- World experience as a consequence of reflex actions
- Unimodal perceptual input built up into more complex concepts of objects
- Nativist Perspective
- Core knowledge
- Objects
- Actions
- Number
- Geometry
- Core knowledge
- Concept
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