Kind

Kind

1. Distinction

   • Golinkoff
     • 24MO: sentences about animate, inanimate, possessor/posessee
     • children showed surprise when a chair moved on it own
   • 3Yo distinction is apparent
   • Roberts and Siegler: poorly specified: 8/9 accepted a plant was living
     • Comparison on human properties

2. Natural Kinds

   • Children believe living thing have an essence (deep,hidden property that accounts for surface properties which interact with behaviour
     • Causal Theories
       • worms don't have babies
       • Small dogs
   • Beaver/Platypus
     • Inheritance
   • Dinosaur blood

3. Artefacts

   • base on shape: add eyes= use texture
   • Function might be the essence of an artefact
     • Jiggy and Zimbo: young children use shape
       • Shape predictor of function
   • Frisbee v plate
     • Name may be a precursor to function