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- 1Perceptual difficultiesDifficult because objects vary on many dimensions, and it may be hard to ignore irrelevant dimensions
Gentner - 2What does it mean if something is innate?The domain of knowledge comes hardwired into our brains at birth. It cannot depend on any other type of learning or development.
- 3Property of recursionCapacity to generate an infinite array of expressions, based on a finite set of elements
- 4Kind biasThings are the same shape because they are the same kind
- 5Mutual exclusivity biasThe expectation that new words apply to new objects
- 6Shape biasThe tendency to extend novel names to solid things that share a common shape
- 7Functional fixednessThe tendency of individuals not to improvise a novel use for an object because they have a fixated notion of what the object is for
- 8Design stanceAn abstract explanatory structure that accounts for an artefact's existence, function, properties and kind
- 9Causal theoriesKind is a better predictor of categories than external properties (shape)
- 10EssenceDeep, hidden properties that cause natural kinds to have certain types of visible surface properties and to interact in particular ways with other entities
- 11MetacognitionOne's knowledge about the mind
- 12Conceptual difficultiesJudgements are difficult to understand because they're not constant
Keil and Carroll - 13Analogical reasoningTaking one relationship from a domain and applying it to another domain
- 14Relational similarityTrademark of analogical reasoning; objects compared in an analogy should be linked by the same relations
- 15What is a tool?Any artefact used either for its intended function or a novel function
- 16Novel tool useA tool that is used without previous expertise or knowledge from society
- 17Pre-made toolsA tool used when the original intended function is known
- 18EmulationCompleting a problem, but not the specific actions that were demonstrated
- 19ImitationCompleting a problem by copying the actions demonstrated
- 20Tool innovationA tool is made without social learning, without a demonstration
- 21Tool manufactureModifying an existing tool outside of its usual function, once this modification has been demonstrated
- 22Executive controlConsciously inhibiting knowledge and action of a tool or inhibiting a verbal response
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