Preschoolers favor the creator's label when reasoning about an artifact's function

Cognition

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Jaswal, Vikram K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Children; Creator's intent; Design stance; Function; Labels

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHILD CARE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ATTITUDE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE;

EID: 33645875336     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.07.006     Document Type: Article

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