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  • 1Division of Psychology, Northumbria University, UK.

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|August 9, 2007
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Younger children

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Development
  • Child Psychology
  • Object Representation

Background:

  • Children's understanding of objects evolves with age.
  • Design information plays a role in artifact representation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how children represent object function.
  • To explore the developmental shift in using design information for artifact representation.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted with 5- and 7-year-old children.
  • Participants generated multiple uses for familiar and novel named objects.

Main Results:

  • Older children focused on known design functions.
  • Younger children showed more flexible, but mechanically constrained, responses.

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  • Older children produced varied functions only when object design was unknown.

    • Conclusions:

    • Object function representations change during childhood.
    • Design information becomes increasingly important for artifact representation as children age.