Autori: Tallandini, Maria Anna, Toneatti, Laura
Titolo: La tipizzazione di un edificio a carattere istituzionale: caratteristiche salienti della chiesa e della banca nei bambini tra i 4 e gli 11 anni
Periodico: Giornale italiano di psicologia
Anno: 2000 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 303 - Pagina finale: 324

This paper investigates the characteristics through which the child develops a capacity for identifying buildings with institutional functions. In particular investigates the use and modification of criterial (AC), functional (AF) and descriptive (AD) factors. Two situations have been considered: the identification of a specific and known building, and a prototypical one, the buildings being a church and a bank. The sample is composed by 792 Italian children aged from 4 to 11 years. The subjects were first required to draw a church/ a church they knew, and then similarly a bank. They were then required to say which particular feature of the drawn building identified it as a church/bank. Results indicate that the chosen indicators change with age: while descriptive elements prevail at age 4-5, criterial ones prevail at age 10-11. When a distinction between the prototypical and the specific building is taken into account, we observe a different result for each of the two buildings: for the church the subjects distinguish the two different aspects from age 8-9, while with the bank this only appears at 10-11 years. These results are discussed from the viewpoint of concept formation and of the possible influence of the "imagery" process.




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