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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Psychol. 2010 Jul 16;61(3):273–301. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.06.001

Table 3.

Test battery

Task # of items
CATEGORY-PROPERTY COMPOSITE
 Categorization 4
 Familiar Induction 6
 Explanation-scope 4
ESSENTIALISM COMPOSITE
 Explanation-content 4
 Stability 6
 Inheritance 4
 Novel Induction 6
 Taxonomic vs. Thematic vs. Shape 4
MEMORY COMPOSITE
 Picture Memory 4
 No-label Book – Subject Nouns 17
 No-label Book – Predicates 58
BACKGROUND
 Essentialism Questionnaire (adults/parents only)
 Literacy Questionnaire (parents in Studies 2 and 3 only)
 PPVT (children only)