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标题：Who is she? Changes in the person context affect categorization
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作者：Goldenberg, Elizabeth ; Sandhofer, Catherine M
期刊名称：Frontiers in Psychology
电子版ISSN：1664-1078
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
页码：1-6
DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00745
出版社：Frontiers Media
摘要：Changes between the learning and testing contexts affect learning, memory, and generalization. We examined whether a change (between learning and testing) in the person children were interacting with affects generalization. Three, 4-, and 5-year-old children were trained on eight novel noun categories by one experimenter. Children were tested for their ability to generalize the label to a new category member by either the same experimenter who trained them or by a novel experimenter. Three-year-old children’s performance was not affected by who they were tested by. Four- and 5-year-old children’s performance was lower when tested by the novel experimenter. The results are discussed in terms of source monitoring and the effect of perceptual context change on category generalization.
关键词：context; generalization; Categorization; word learning; cognitive development; Memory