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Development of Classification: The Use of Similarity and Dimensional Relations.
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Smith, Linda B. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1983
Researched the possibility that four- to six-year-old children are competent and systematic classifiers, at least making classifications by overall similarity. In three experiments, young children classified various sets of multidimensional stimuli that could be organized into catagories by overall similarity or by diminsional attributes. Children…
Descriptors: Classification, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children, Perceptual Development
What Is "High"? The Development of Reference Points for "High" and "Low."
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Smith, Linda B.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines how reference points for the categorical interpretation of high and low (adjectives) were defined by three- to five-year-old children and adults. Shows categorical interpretations of relative terms to be complex dependent. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Classification, Cognitive Ability