カテゴリー化に及ぼす特徴情報タイプの効果

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two types of feature information; observable and unobservable on categorization at superordinate level (animal) in young children and adults. Participants were 90 children (ages 5 to 6 years) and 90 adults (ages 21 to 23 years). When subjects were given observable feature information, young children's categorization was facilitated as well as adult's. When they were given unobservable feature information, young children's categorization was not facilitated to the same extent as adult's. If young children knew about the feature, however their categorization was facilitated as well as adult's. These findings suggest that not only the knowledge which relates to observability, but also the knowledge which does not relate to observability takes part in the categorization process of young children.
日本基礎心理学会の論文
1996-09-30