{"pk":26021,"title":"Induction with Familiar and Newly-Learned Categories in Young Children","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Accounts of induction development suggest that young children’s inferences are based either on object kind knowledge\n(Gelman & Markman, 1986), or on perceptual similarity (e.g., Sloutsky & Fisher, 2004). However, both accounts suggest\nthat inferences with familiar and newly-learned categories engage a common set of psychological processes (determination of\nobject kind or perceptual similarity). Alternately, young children may perform similarity-based induction with newly-learned\ncategories, but use prior knowledge to make inferences with familiar categories. In this study, children complete two versions of\na task in which a property attributed to a target can be extended to a category match or a perceptual match. In one version, items\nbelong to familiar biological categories; in the other, items belong to two novel pseudo-biological categories. Preliminary findings\nindicate that although Kindergarten-age children learn to accurately categorize the novel items, they make similarity-based\ninferences with newly-learned categories, and category-consistent inferences with familiar categories.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sr8b4mv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Layla","middle_name":"","last_name":"Unger","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""},{"first_name":"Anna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fisher","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26021/galley/15645/download/"}]}