What is it about?
Categorization, a fundamental cognitive process that enables children to group objects, people, and events, is crucial for learning and development during the preschool years. This research aimed to understand if individual differences in categorization are primarily shaped by a child's accumulating knowledge or by their developing executive functions.
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Why is it important?
Understanding the factors that influence categorization development during the preschool years is important because categorization is a foundational cognitive skill that underpins many aspects of learning and development. Knowing whether categorization abilities are shaped more by executive functions or by factual knowledge can have important implications for early childhood education.
Perspectives
This research emphasizes the role of individual differences in shaping how children develop specific conceptual knowledge (here, food). From that perspective, our case illustrates the complex interplay between child characteristics in shaping the development of categorization abilities.
Damien Foinant
Universite de Bourgogne
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This page is a summary of: Individual differences in categorization development: The mediation of executive functions and factual knowledge, the case of food., Developmental Psychology, August 2024, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/dev0001785.
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