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

Question 1

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

Answer 1

constraints

Question 2

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

Answer 2

basic

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

psychological

Question 4

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.

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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 ___.

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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.

Question 16

Children might perceive causality as ___

Question 17

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 ___