期刊
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
卷 59, 期 3, 页码 244-274出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2009.05.001
关键词
Cognitive development; Natural kinds; Social categories; Concepts; Categorization; Culture; Gender; Race; Naive biology; Artifacts
资金
- NICHD [HD-36043]
- NIMH [T32 MH-63057-03]
- Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan
- University of Michigan Rackham Dissertation Research
- University of Michigan Predoctoral Fellowship
Previous research indicates that the ontological status that adults attribute to categories varies systematically by domain. For example, adults view distinctions between different animal species as natural and objective, but view distinctions between different kinds of furniture as more conventionalized and subjective. The present work (N = 435; ages 5-78) examined the effects of domain, age, and cultural context on beliefs about the naturalness vs. conventionality of categories. Results demonstrate that young children, like adults, view animal categories as natural kinds, but artifact categories as more conventionalized. For human social categories (gender and race), beliefs about naturalness and conventionality were predicted by interactions between cultural context and age. Implications for the origins of social categories and theories of conceptual development will be discussed. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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