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The role of information about “convention,” “design,” and “goal” in representing artificial kinds
Author(s) -
German Tim P.,
Truxaw Danielle,
Defeyter Margaret Anne
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.183
Subject(s) - convention , artifact (error) , argument (complex analysis) , representation (politics) , function (biology) , facet (psychology) , cognitive science , psychology , computer science , cognitive psychology , linguistics , artificial intelligence , social psychology , sociology , social science , evolutionary biology , biology , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , personality , politics , big five personality traits , political science , law
Artifact knowledge requires integration of information from different areas of human commonsense knowledge—our everyday understanding of object mechanics and our everyday psychology. Here we address the question of artifact conceptual structure, outlining evidence from tasks involving categorization, function judgments, and problem solving.