Conceptual development

Conceptual development

1. Concept

   • Philosophy
     • Constituents of thought
   • Cognitive psychology
     • General ideas
     • Allows us to organise things
       • Similarity

2. Perceptual cues vs. living things (Pauen, 2002)

   • Animals vs. furniture
   • Infants notice novel item in familiar category and a novel category
     • Even with artificial exemplars

3. Nativist perspective

   • Core knowledge
     • Geometry
     • Actions
     • Objects
     • Numbers

4. Perceptual cues

   • Basic visual features
   • Higher level visual features
   • touch / texture
   • Auditory cues

5. How does the hierarchy of concepts develop?

   • Rosch, 1970s
   • Bornstein & Arterberry (2010)

6. Empiricist perspective

   • World experience as a consequence of reflex actions
   • Unimodal perceptual input built up into more complex concepts of objects
   • Infants form categories using perceptual information
   • Quinn, 1987
     • 6 squares, 6 squares and 6 triangles
     • 3 months old
     • novel diamond

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