Taxonomic relations and cognitive economy in conceptual organization
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This study, performed on children aged 5, 8, and 10, and on adults, deals with conceptual knowledge organization using a word association task. Participants were presented with concept nouns at superordinate, basic, and subordinate level. Their productions were coded according to 4 kinds of relations: taxonomic, thematic, attributive, and evaluative relations. The following results were found at all the considered ages: a. not only lower but also superordinate level concepts elicit attributive relations; b. the production of thematic relations outnumbers that of taxonomic relations thus showing that there is no thematic to taxonomic shift. These results suggest a revision of the criteria on which cognitive economy rests in knowledge organization that will probably lead to a more complex view of the cognitive economy principle.
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