Why the designer's intended function is central for proper function assignment and artifact conceptualization: Essentialist and normative accounts

Chaigneau, Sergio E.; Puebla, Guillermo; Canessa, Enrique

doi:10.1016/j.dr.2016.06.002

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“…"If you look at your surroundings right now, most things that you see are probably artefacts created by people to fulfil different functions. Chairs, pens, light bulbs, and computers are part of an artificial environment that humans have created for themselves" (Chaigneau, Puebla, & Canessa, 2016, p. 39)…”

Section: Signs and Objects: Cultural Artefacts In The Human‐made Envimentioning

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“…Objects such as coffee cups are artefacts that are instrumentally used in daily activities. Just as we use coffee cups to drink coffee, we use objects as instruments to achieve our goals, and thus the instrumental function of objects is central to people’s understanding about those objects (Chaigneau & Barsalou, 2008; Chaigneau et al, 2016; Futó, Téglás, Csibra, & Gergely, 2010). For instance, when people are asked to list features of a category of objects, they often include the behaviours that people perform with them; namely, the object’s instrumental functions (Rosch & Lloyd, 1978; Rosch, Mervis, Gray, Johnson, & Boyes‐Braem, 1976).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Navigating sustainably within the urban environment: The role of environmental identity and attitudes on sign and object evaluation

Meis-Harris

Kashima

2020

Asian J of Social Psycho

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In contemporary urbanised society, people are increasingly disconnected from nature. Environmental identity, as a promoter of various pro-environmental outcomes, may bridge the human-nature gap. However, it is less clear how environmental identity helps people to navigate sustainably within the urban environment. In three studies, we investigate how environmental identity relates to evaluations of the functions of two different types of items that populate the human-made environment: signs that communicate environmentally appropriate behaviours (e.g., recycling signs) and objects that are instrumentally used in everyday life (e.g., plastic bags). We also examine how environmental identity differs from other related environmental constructs (i.e., environmental attitudes and behaviours) in terms of their relationship with evaluations of signs and objects. Heider's balance theory helps us clarify this conceptual distinction; in line with this analysis, we find that explicit environmental identity was associated with more positive evaluations of environmental signs' communicative functions, but not objects' instrumental functions. In contrast, pro-environmental attitudes are associated with judgements of environmentally harmful objects as a greater hindrance to sustainability. Thus, environmental identity and environmental attitudes help people to respond more pro-environmentally in the urbanised environment by informing them of the environmental implications of signs and objects.

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Section: Signs and Objects: Cultural Artefacts In The Human‐made Envimentioning

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Section: Signs and Objects: Cultural Artefacts In The Human‐made Envimentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating sustainably within the urban environment: The role of environmental identity and attitudes on sign and object evaluation

Meis-Harris

Kashima

2020

Asian J of Social Psycho

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“…For example, we can use a hammer to hold down a pile of papers but we know that a hammer is really for banging in nails (Chaigneau, Puebla & Canessa, 2016). In general these so-called 'proper' functions correspond to the intentions of the original designer of an object.…”

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“…Other researchers argue that these biases do not develop until later. There is general consensus in the literature that preference to categorise novel objects based on the first demonstrated function develops around age 6 and then persists into adulthood (see Chaigneau et al, 2016). German and colleagues (2007) argue that children under the age of 6 determine function based on any goal they observe from a demonstrator.…”

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“…Gruber, Clark, Hroar Klempe and Valsiner (2015) and Murphy (2002) have highlighted the importance of conducting longitudinal studies in ecological contexts, and Pauen, Birgit, Hoehl and Bechtel (2015) have stated that it is crucial to study the influence that adults and semiotic mediation processes have on conceptual development. Our approach is a contribution to the landscape of perspectives criticising perceptual reductionism and advocating for cultural and functional points of view to explain conceptual development (see Barsalou, Sloman & Chaigneau, 2005;Borghi, 2005;Chaigneau & Barsalou, 2008;Chaigneau et al, 2016;Chen et al, 2016;Costall & Dreier, 2006;Krnel & Skubic, 2015;Malafouris, 2013;Margolis & Laurence, 2015;Säljö, 2018;Smith, 2005).…”

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On perception as the basis for object concepts: a critical analysis

Alessandroni¹,

Rodríguez²

2018

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Within cognitive and developmental psychology it is commonly argued that perception is the basis for object concepts. According to this view, sensory experiences would translate into concepts as a result of the recognition, correlation and integration of physical attributes. Once attributes are integrated into general patterns, subjects would become able to parse objects into categories. In this article, we critically review the three epistemological perspectives according to which can be claimed that object concepts depend on perception: state non-conceptualism, content non-conceptualism, and content conceptualism. We show the three perspectives have problems that make perception inadequate as a conceptual basis. We suggest that the inquiry about the origin and development of object concepts can benefit from a pragmatic perspective that considers objects’ cultural functions as a conceptual foundation. We address this possibility from the theoretical framework of the pragmatics of the object, considering the importance of objects’ functional permanence.

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Why the designer's intended function is central for proper function assignment and artifact conceptualization: Essentialist and normative accounts

Cited by 5 publications

References 53 publications

Navigating sustainably within the urban environment: The role of environmental identity and attitudes on sign and object evaluation

Navigating sustainably within the urban environment: The role of environmental identity and attitudes on sign and object evaluation

Is tool modification more difficult than innovation?

On perception as the basis for object concepts: a critical analysis

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