Preschoolers' use of abstract individual identity in inductive inference

Children’s toys and books provide a rich arena for investigating conceptual flexibility, because they often can be understood to possess an individual identity at multiple levels of abstraction. For example, many toys (e.g., a stuffed Winnie-the-Pooh doll) can be construed either as characters from...

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Main Author: Rhemtulla, Mijke Toine
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27086