Concepts and Conceptual Development

Ecological and Intellectual Factors in Categorization
Herausgeber: Neisser, Ulric; Ulric, Neisser

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Concepts and Conceptual Development draws together a wide range of theorists to consider many different aspects of 'the psychology of concepts'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780521378758
• ISBN-10: 0521378753
• Artikelnr.: 28108715

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of contributors
1. Introduction: the ecological and intellectual bases of categorisation Ulric Neisser
2. From direct perception to conceptual structure Ulric Neisser
3. Category cohesiveness, theories and cognitive archaeology Douglas L. Medin and William D. Wattenmaker
4. Cognitive models and prototype theory George Lakoff
5. The instability of graded structure: implications for the nature of concepts Lawrence W. Barsalou
6. Decentralised control of categorisation: the role of prior processing episodes Lee R. Brooks
7. Conceptual development and category structure Frank C. Keil
8. Child-basic object categories and early lexical development Carolyn B. Mervis
9. Scripts and categories: interrelationships in development Robyn Fivush
10. How children constrain the possible meanings of words Ellen M. Markman
11. The role of theories in a theory of concepts Robert N. McCauley
Indexes.