Operational thought and the acquisition of taxonomic relations involving figurative dissimilarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9791871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert B Ricco (0000-0003-2607-9426, Vassar College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 996-1003 |
| Publication date | 1989-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.25.6.996 |
| OpenAlex | W2048247158 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Atypical exemplars of taxonomic categories (e.g., clothing, furniture) differ from more typical exemplars along figurative dimensions of perceptual and contextual similarity. The advent of operational thought might be expected to facilitate category acquisition because it engenders a competence to suppress figurative dissimilarities and focus on nonfigurative similarities (e.g., common function). Age- and grade-equivalent preoperational and concrete operational groups were given oddity, sort, and category membership tasks with pictorial stimuli. Concrete operational subjects showed a greater appreciation than preoperational subjects for taxonomic relations involving atypical exemplars. Subjects of both cognitive levels could appreciate taxonomic relations involving strictly typical or moderately typical exemplars of a category. Results are interpreted as supporting a contention that meanings become more general with the emergence of operational thought. Superordinate concepts are abstract organizations such as clothing, furniture, fruit, and animal, having basic object concepts (e.g., skirt, pants; chair, table; apple, banana; bird, fish) as exemplars. The basic object level of a conceptual hierarchy is the most inclusive level at which the exemplars of a concept share a large number of features (Rosch, Mervis, Gray, Johnson
Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Developmental psychology · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Action Observation and Synchronization · Categorization, perception, and language · Child and Animal Learning Development · Design Education and Practice · Psychology · Social Psychology
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On the Internal Structure of Perceptual and Semantic Categories11this Research Was Supported in Part by a Grant to the Author (Under Her Former Name, Eleanor Rosch Heider) From the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry # G67-392, in Part by Funds Made Available to the Child Study Center of Brown University From the Grant Foundation and From the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Collaborative Project (Ph-43-68-13), and in Part by Research Funds Made Available by the University of California at Berkeley (220 Grant #K9pf-429). I Wish to Thank Karl G. Heider for His Help in the Field in West Irian (Indonesian New Guinea), Dr. Robert Olton for Assistance in Carrying Out Experiment 3, and Keith Burton, Randy Street, and Peter Lewitt Who Assisted With Experiment 4. Experiment 4 Was Performed With Dr. Richard Millward While the Author Was a Research Associate at Brown University.
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| Citation span | 1995 - 1995 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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