Children’s Pathways in Concepts Acquisition: Prototypical Vs. Exemplar Categorization
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Tallandini, Maria A.; Morsan, Valentina; Toneatti, Laura
- Source
- Subject
- concepts development
categorization
prototypicality-exemplarity
childhood
- Language
- English
This study focused on the prototypical-exemplar categorization dichotomy in pre-school and school-aged children considering 4-11 years old children: categorization at 4 to 5 years of age mainly relied on Perceptual /Descriptive features, and conceptual features were used appropriately only at 8 to 11 years.