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Concepts and Conceptual Development: Ecological and Intellectual Factors in Categorization

Concepts and Conceptual Development: Ecological and Intellectual Factors in Categorization

Paperback

Series: Emory Symposia in Cognition, Book 1

Child Psychology

ISBN10: 0521378753
ISBN13: 9780521378758
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 31 1989
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Categories straddle the boundary between the mind and the world: they are socially developed mental representations, but they must fit the properties of real objects in the real environment if they are to be useful. Concepts and Conceptual Development reflects the view that a full understanding of categorization must take all these constraints into account. Everyday terms and categories depend not only on the implicit theories that people have about the world (their 'idealised cognitive models'), but also on the objective properties of particular objects and the perceptible similarities among these objects. An understanding of these multiple relationships can reshape studies of concepts and conceptual development. Concepts and Conceptual Development draws together theorists from a wide range of theoretical orientations to consider many different aspects of 'the psychology of concepts'.

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