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What’s in a name? Similar and indentical labels in Chinese children’s induction

LONG Chang-quan1, LI Hong2, DENG Xiao-feng1, YUAN Ying1, LI Jun1, LEI Yi2   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China;
    2. Research Center of Developmental and Education psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China
  • Online:2012-05-15 Published:2012-05-15

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Abstract: It is debated that labels are perceptual or conceptual information in children's induction.Sloutsky and Fisher(2012) firstly reported that similar artifical labels could induce more label-based induction in children,suggested that labels were perceptual attributes.Following Sloutsky and Fisher(2012),in the present study,Chinese children's induction were tested with realistic labels and realistic line drawings,by using control condition,similar label condition and indentical label condition.Similar to triad properties induction task,each triad included target item,perceptual comparison item which was similar to target,and conceptual comparison item which was dissimilar to target.In the control condition,experimenters used "this one"to refer stimulus.In the similar label condition,target and conceptual comparisom item were similar labels which both involved a morpheme which hinted the categorical membership(e.g.,cuiniao-tuoniao).In the identical label condtion,target and the conceptual comparison item share indentical label(e.g.,niao-niao).In experiment 1,three items in each triad belong to one category;in experiment 2,three items in each triad belong to two kinds of categories.The results showed that children made more label-based induction in similar and indentical labels than in control condition,but there was no significant difference between similar and indentical label conditions.The data suggested that(1) similar reality labels could also enhance Chinese children's label-based induction;and(2) labels may have "dual properties"in early induction.

Key words: label effects, similar labels, indentical labels, children

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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