In a study by Carey and Bartlett (1978), children were presented with a blue-colored tray and an olive-colored tray, and they were asked to get the "chromium" tray, not the blue one
All of the children retrieved the olive tray, thus inferring that "chromium" referred to the olive color. Later, when asked the color of the olive tray, children responded by saying "chromium." This is an example of ___.
a. semantic bootstrapping
b. overlapping
c. fast mapping
d. overgeneralization
C
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