Casasola Marianella
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Child Dev. 2005 Jan-Feb;76(1):279-90. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00844.x.
Two experiments explored how infants learn to form an abstract categorical representation of support (i.e., on) when habituated to few (i.e., 2) or many (i.e., 6) examples of the relation. When habituated to 2 pairs of objects in a support relation, 14-month-olds, but not 10-month-olds, formed the abstract spatial category (i.e., generalized the relation to novel objects). When habituated to 6 object pairs in a support relation, infants did not attend to the relation. The results indicate that infants learn to form an abstract spatial category of support between 10 and 14 months and that having fewer object pairs depicting this relation facilitates their acquisition of the abstract categorical representation.
两项实验探究了婴儿在接触少量(即2个)或大量(即6个)支持关系(即“在……之上”)示例时,是如何学会形成支持的抽象类别表征的。当婴儿接触2对处于支持关系的物体时,14个月大的婴儿而非10个月大的婴儿形成了抽象的空间类别(即将该关系推广到新物体上)。当婴儿接触6对处于支持关系的物体时,他们并未关注该关系。结果表明,婴儿在10到14个月之间学会形成支持的抽象空间类别,并且描绘该关系的物体对越少,越有助于他们习得抽象类别表征。