The Typicality Ranking Task: A New Method to Derive Typicality Judgments from Children.

ABSTRACT: An alternative method for deriving typicality judgments, applicable in young children that are not familiar with numerical values yet, is introduced, allowing researchers to study gradedness at younger ages in concept development. Contrary to the long tradition of using rating-based procedures to derive typicality judgments, we propose a method that is based on typicality ranking rather than rating, in which items are gradually sorted according to their typicality, and that requires a minimum of linguistic knowledge. The validity of the method is investigated and the method is compared to the traditional typicality rating measurement in a large empirical study with eight different semantic concepts. The results show that the typicality ranking task can be used to assess children's category

SUBMITTER: Djalal FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4913967 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature