Exam 4: Social Cognition, Mental Representation and Theory of Mind

According to Rosch, ___ -level category members share the most perceptual similarities with each other.

Younger children might project behavioral and psychological properties onto other animals according to how similar they are to humans. According to Carey, this is the ___

Children judge shared structure as more important for categorizing biological kinds, and shared ___ as more important for categorizing artifacts.

Children might have different core conceptual knowledge from adults because of their different experiences and knowledge. These ___

Children have an abstract framework of causal expectations about natural kinds and artifacts, but lack ___ knowledge.

Mandler and colleagues have proposed that sensitivity to superordinate-level categories ___ sensitivity to basic-level categories.

Quinn and colleagues have proposed that the development of categorization proceeds from more general or global representations to more specific or ___ representations.

Children understand that only biological entities can show ___, that is, they can change color or form.

Children tend to interpret novel nouns as indicating superordinate categories and novel adjectives as indicating ___ categories.

A characteristic feature is a feature that is typically associated with a concept; a ___ feature is a feature that applies to 100% of all instances of a concept.

The basic level of categorization offers the greatest ___ utility because at this level the most information can be obtained about the category with the least cognitive effort.

The ___ touching paradigm is based on the assumption that infants tend to touch objects from the same category in order more often than would be expected by chance.

In the matching-to-___ paradigm, children are given a target object and asked to select the correct match from a pair of alternatives.

A prototype is a highly representative exemplar of a category either because it has average values on the attributes associated with the category, or because it is highly ___.

Inductive reasoning is determined by innate principles, ___ on learning, such as the animate

Keil proposed that biological knowledge is ___ driven and that natural kinds are identified on the basis of deeper structural characteristics.

Children might perceive causality as ___