The Development of Contextual Categories

By Jean M. Mandler, Robyn Fivush, J. Reznick. 1987

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECT CATEGORIZATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN: HIERARCHICAL INCLUSIVENESS, AGE, PERCEPTUAL ATTRIBUTE, AND GROUP VERSUS INDIVIDUAL ANALYSES (2010, methodology): “Using a manipulation task, Mandler and colleagues (Mandler et al., 1987; Mandler & Bauer, 1988; Mandler & McDonough, 1993) showed that children in the first 2 years differentiate categories of animals and vehicles but not lesser inclusive distinctions, such as between dogs and horses.”
Separating the sheep from the goats: Differentiating global categories ☆ (1991, methodology): “This conclusion is reached not only on the basis of the object-manipulation tasks used in the present experiments but also on match-to-sample tasks (Bauer & Mandler, 1989) and preferential looking (Mandler et al., 1987; Ross, 1990).”
Infants' use of object parts in early categorization. (1998, methodology): “Procedures for analyzing sequential touching were taken from those developed by Mandler et al. (1987) , which have been used subsequently in a number of categorizing studies (e.g., Bauer et al., 1995; Mandler & Bauer, 1988; Mandler et al., 1991; Poulin-Dubois et al., 1995 ).”
Evidence for Task-Dependent Categorization in Infancy (1996, methodology): “In the sequential-touching task (Mandler & Bauer, 1988; Mandler et al., 1991; Mandler, Fivush, & Reznick, 1987 ), in contrast, infants are presented simultaneously with several objects from two categories (typically four objects from each category), and their touching behavior is recorded for a 2-m”
The Social Constitution of Perceiver-Environment Reciprocity (2007, background): “For example, there is some indication that objects are sometimes classified in terms of where they can be found ( Mandler, Fivush, & Resnick, 1987 ).”
Evidence for Representations of Perceptually Similar Natural Categories by 3-Month-Old and 4-Month-Old Infants (1993, background): “The failure to find an effect of familiarization was, we believe, due to the nature of the stimuli; each was complex in design and often in color and each was different from the other eleven stimuli [see Mandler et al (1987) and Ross (1980) for comparable data with infants aged 12 and 24 months] .”