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Article: Children's attention to artifact shape and artifact function in labeling and non-labeling contexts.
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- Child Study Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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The studies in this paper examined whether children would attend to object function over object shape when labeling several familiar artifacts. In Experiment 1, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds and adults were asked to generalize a label (Name condition), find another one (No-Word condition), or find one that could serve a particular function (Function condition). Although the children attended to artifact shape in all 3 conditions, attention to shape was weaker in the No-Word and Function conditions; in contrast, adults attended to shape for the Name and No-Word conditions and function for the Function condition. In Experiment 2, when the function of the artifact was demonstrated ...
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