PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fast Mapping, 18 Months, Pragmatics

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Mathieu Le Corre

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Babies have na ve theories to help them to understand their world. Babies are able to categorize, they learn some of its properties. Important clues come from perceptual features and their organization. First the categories are very broad, then babies learn to narrow it by distinguishing sub categories. I\nfants rapidly create reasonable and accurate theories, which help them to expect that object will act in predictable ways. Motion is critical in early understanding of animate and inanimate objects. By 12 to 15 months they see the objects if they are: self-propelled, move in irregular paths, act to achieve goals. 4 year old theories of biology (preschool children know many properties of living things, including movement, growth, and that living things heal when injured: movement, growth, internal parts, illness, healing: Children do not see plants as living things, but that is due to lack of.