Graham, SusanVukatana, Ena2013-08-202013-11-122013-08-202013Vukatana, E. (2013). Early Inductive Reasoning: Examining 11-Month-Olds' Abilities (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25768http://hdl.handle.net/11023/877Induction is a fundamental aspect of human learning and reasoning, allowing individuals to generalize beyond what is known to new instances and situations. The present studies investigated inductive reasoning in 11-month-olds. In three experiments, infants were familiarized with animal-sound pairings (e.g., Animal1 [red]-Sound1). Following familiarization, infants’ acquisition of the original pairing and their ability to generalize the sound property to a new member of the familiar category (e.g., Animal2 [blue]-Sound1) were assessed. The results revealed that infants acquired the original animal-sound pairing, but did not generalize the sound property to a new member of a familiar category. Thus, infants formed one-to-one animal-sound mappings, but did not show evidence of category-based inferences.engUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.CognitiveDevelopmentalEarly Inductive ReasoningCategorizationmaster thesishttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25768