Effects of Categorical Labels on Similarity Judgments: A Critical Analysis of Similarity-Based Approaches

Autor/inn/en	Noles, Nicholaus S.; Gelman, Susan A.
Titel	Effects of Categorical Labels on Similarity Judgments: A Critical Analysis of Similarity-Based Approaches
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 48 (2012) 3, S.890-896 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0026075
Schlagwörter	Criticism; Classification; Preschool Children; Stimuli; Inferences; Cues; Pretests Posttests; Test Items; Animals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritik; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Anreizsystem; Inference; Inferenz; Stichwort; Test content; Testaufgabe; Animal; Tier; Tiere
Abstract	Our goal in the present study was to evaluate the claim that category labels affect children's judgments of visual similarity. We presented preschool children with discriminable and identical sets of animal pictures and asked them to make perceptual judgments in the presence or absence of labels. Our findings indicate that children who are asked to make perceptual judgments about identical items judge discriminable items less accurately when making subsequent similarity judgments. Thus, labels do not generally affect children's perceptual similarity judgments; rather, children's reliance on labels to make similarity judgments appears to be attributable to flaws in the methodological approaches used in prior studies. These results have implications for the role of perceptual and conceptual information in children's categorization and induction. (Contains 1 table and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10