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ERIC Number: EJ750228
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Nov
Pages: 5
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
An Attentional Learning Account of the Shape Bias: Reply to Cimpian and Markman (2005) and Booth, Waxman, and Huang (2005)
Smith, Linda B.; Samuelson, Larissa
Developmental Psychology, v42 n6 p1339-1343 Nov 2006
Recently, "Developmental Psychology" published 2 articles on the shape bias; both rejected the authors' previous proposals about the role of attentional learning in the development of a shape bias in object name learning. A. Cimpian and E. Markman (2005; see record EJ733667) did so by arguing that the shape bias does not exist but is an experimental artifact. A. E. Booth, S. R. Waxman, and Y. T. Huang (2005; see record EJ684979), in contrast, concluded that the shape bias (and its contextual link to artifact categories) does exist but that the mechanisms that underlie it are conceptual knowledge and not attentional learning. In response, in this article the authors clarify the claims of the Attentional Learning Account (ALA) and interpretations of the data under question. The authors also seek to make explicit the deeper theoretical divide: cognition as sequestered from processes of perceiving and acting versus as embedded in, and inseparable from, those very processes.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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