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Schaverien, Lynette; Cosgrove, Mark – 1997
The modern history of biology shows how Darwin's selectionist theory has replaced instructionist theories in explaining the operations of living things: first with inheritance through the gene pool of the 1850s, and second with the replacement of a template theory of immune system function in the 1960s. Today scholars in several disciplines…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Discovery Processes, Evolution
Peer reviewedSchacter, Daniel L.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Reports two experiments in which eight patients with organic memory disorders exhibited a pattern of search behavior that resembled mnemonmic precedence--the ability to retrieve an object at an initial location, but not at a new location. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Discovery Processes
