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> FacultyJohn
D. Coley • See curriculum
vitae ( pdf )
My research takes a developmental and comparative approach
to investigating how the acquisition of knowledge influences basic processes
of categorization and reasoning. Although a great deal of research focuses
on categorization and reasoning in select populations, we still know little
about how differences between individuals or groups with respect to experience
in a given domain relate to differences in how knowledge is organized
or used in reasoning in that domain. My research program seeks to address
this gap via two complementary components: one looks at how experience
leads to differences in conceptual structure and reasoning in adults,
and the other focuses on how conceptual development may follow different
trajectories in children as a function of differences in experience and
cultural beliefs. PSY U466: Cognition |
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