Alicia García-Sierra
Learning by parenting: How do mothers respond to their children's developmental declines?
Social science research
lively debate concerning role conceptual perceptual information young childrens inductive inferences studies focus role basic level categories induction present research contributes debate asking whether childrens inductions guided ontological constraints two studies use novel inductive paradigm test whether young children expectation animals share internal commonalities extend perceptually similar inanimates results show children make categoryconsistent responses asked project internal feature animal either dissimilar animal similar toy replica however children universal preference categoryconsistent responses analogous task involving vehicles vehicle toy replicas results also show role context individual factors inferences childrens early reliance ontological commitments induction cannot explained perceptual similarity childrens sensitivity authenticity objects