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Pragmatic and prescriptive aspects of children's categorization
Author(s) -
Kalish Charles W.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.181
Subject(s) - categorization , similarity (geometry) , psychology , face (sociological concept) , cognitive psychology , social psychology , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , social science , image (mathematics)
Abstract Categorization judgments may be right or wrong and more or less useful. When a child calls a whale “a fish,” is she making an error, or just describing an interesting similarity? This chapter explores the challenges children face in learning to conform to conventions governing categorization.

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