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Making living versus nonliving distinctions: Lessons from infants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Martha E. Arterberry
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325 arterber@gettysburg.edu www.gettysburg.edu/~arterber/sheet.html

Abstract

Developmental research on infants' categorization of living and nonliving objects finds that very young children are equally skilled in grouping such objects. The lack of a specialization for one type of object over another may be due to knowledge of function and the time frame for acquiring such knowledge.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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