Preliminary evidence that infants do not generalize surprise-induced exploration to same-category exemplars¶
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q1 i? Infants who saw a ball violate solidity showed no significant preference for a new ball over a car, and did not differ from infants who saw an expected outcome. → Stahl Aimee E. 2019
Evidence¶
Stahl Aimee E. 2019¶
Stahl Aimee E., Feigenson Lisa. (2019). Violations of Core Knowledge Shape Early Learning. Topics in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12389
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Unpublished work (Stahl & Feigenson, in preparation a) in which 11-month-olds saw a striped ball pass through a wall and then chose between a new same-category ball and a car. The authors describe these results as preliminary.
"Infants who saw the surprising outcome showed no significant preference for the new ball over the car, and their preferences did not differ from those of infants who saw the ball behave in an expected way"
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Preliminary evidence that infants do not generalize surprise-induced exploration to same-category exemplars |
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Preliminary evidence that infants do not generalize surprise-induced exploration to same-category exemplars |
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