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Preschoolers' ability to classify pairs of photographs of animate and inanimate animals that are the same or different kind
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Yang, Shuqi. Preschoolers' ability to classify pairs of photographs of animate and inanimate animals that are the same or different kind. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3D50PZC

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TitlePreschoolers' ability to classify pairs of photographs of animate and inanimate animals that are the same or different kind
NameYang, Shuqi (author); Gelman, Rochel (chair); Gallistel, Charles Randy (internal member); Leslie, Alan (internal member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - New Brunswick
Date Created2015
Other Date2015-10 (degree)
SubjectPsychology, Visual perception
Extent1 online resource (v, 15 p. : ill.)
DescriptionBrenneman, Zuza and Gelman (unpublished,2003) demonstrated that 3- and 4-year-old children could classify pairs of photographs of real and fabricated copies of animate objects into the correct animate and inanimate category. In their experiment, each pair consisted of photographs of a real and an artificial version of the same animal (i.e., a real and an artificial dog, a real and an artificial rabbit, etc). Here we label this Control condition. In the present follow-up Experimental condition, we sample stimuli from the Control study, but decreased the surface similarity of the pairs. To do this we assigned photo of real animal with randomly selected fake animal pictures. As a result, no pair of real-fake animal photos looked alike. Fifteen 3-year-old and fifteen 4-year-old children participated in the present study and results from the previous experiment was used as a Control comparison condition. Results showed that there was no significant difference between the present experiment and the previous experiment for both age groups (p=0.208). Still, inspection of the distributions of the 3- year-old children’s performance, there was a tendency that the context of similarity facilitates three year old children’s biological categorization.
NoteM.S.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Noteby Shuqi Yang
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3D50PZC
Languageeng
CollectionGraduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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