Who is she? Changes in the person context affect categorization

Frontiers in Psychology

Elizabeth R. Goldenberg¹ 

关键词: context;    generalization;    categorization;    word learning;    cognitive development;    memory;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00745

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Changes between the learning and testing contexts affect learning, memory, and generalization. We examined whether a change (between learning and testing) in the person children were interacting with affects generalization. Three-, four-, and five-year-old children were trained on eight novel noun categories by one experimenter. Children were tested for their ability to generalize the label to a new category member by either the same experimenter who trained them or by a novel experimenter. Three-year-old children's performance was not affected by who they were tested by. Four- and five-year-old children's performance was lower when tested by the novel experimenter. The results are discussed in terms of source monitoring and the effect of perceptual context change on category generalization.

【 授权许可】

CC BY