Attentional Learning and Flexible Induction: How Mundane Mechanisms Give Rise to Smart Behaviors Export

@article{citeulike:2806313, abstract = {Young children often exhibit flexible behaviors relying on different kinds of information in different situations. This flexibility has been traditionally attributed to conceptual knowledge. Reported research demonstrates that flexibility can be acquired implicitly and it does not require conceptual knowledge. In Experiment 1, 4- to 5-year-olds successfully learned different context-predictor contingencies and subsequently flexibly relied on different predictors in different contexts. Experiments 2A and 2B indicated that flexible generalization stems from implicit attentional learning rather than from rule discovery, and Experiment 3 pointed to very limited strategic control over generalization behaviors in 4- to 5-year-olds. These findings indicate that mundane mechanisms grounded in associative and attentional learning may give rise to smart flexible behaviors.}, author = {Sloutsky, Vladimir M. and Fisher, Anna V.}, citeulike-article-id = {2806313}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01148.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01148.x}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01148.x}, journal = {Child Development}, keywords = {child, development, induction, learning, reasoning}, number = {3}, pages = {639--651}, posted-at = {2008-05-17 04:41:24}, priority = {4}, title = {Attentional Learning and Flexible Induction: How Mundane Mechanisms Give Rise to Smart Behaviors}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01148.x}, volume = {79}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2806313 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2806313 N2 - Young children often exhibit flexible behaviors relying on different kinds of information in different situations. This flexibility has been traditionally attributed to conceptual knowledge. Reported research demonstrates that flexibility can be acquired implicitly and it does not require conceptual knowledge. In Experiment 1, 4- to 5-year-olds successfully learned different context-predictor contingencies and subsequently flexibly relied on different predictors in different contexts. Experiments 2A and 2B indicated that flexible generalization stems from implicit attentional learning rather than from rule discovery, and Experiment 3 pointed to very limited strategic control over generalization behaviors in 4- to 5-year-olds. These findings indicate that mundane mechanisms grounded in associative and attentional learning may give rise to smart flexible behaviors. IS - 3 JF - Child Development EP - 651 TI - Attentional Learning and Flexible Induction: How Mundane Mechanisms Give Rise to Smart Behaviors VL - 79 SP - 639 KW - child KW - development KW - induction KW - learning KW - reasoning AU - Sloutsky, Vladimir AU - Fisher, Anna PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01148.x ER -