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Ahmet Tasdere; Dilek Erol; Sabiha Eren – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2024
This study, aiming to reveal preschool children's mental models of their environment, was carried out with the participation of 225 children aged 36-72 months attending 8 different preschool education institutions. It is based on qualitative research designed around a case study. The Word Association Test and Drawing were used as the data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Schemata (Cognition)
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Storkel, Holly L.; Adlof, Suzanne M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: The purpose was to determine the number of semantic neighbors, namely, "semantic set size," for 88 nonobjects (J. F. Kroll & M. C. Potter, 1984) and determine how semantic set size related to other measures and age. Method: Data were collected from 82 adults and 92 preschool children in a discrete association task. The nonobjects were…
Descriptors: Semantics, Preschool Children, Adults, Age Differences
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Carneiro, Paula; Albuquerque, Pedro; Fernandez, Angel; Esteves, Francisco – Child Development, 2007
Two experiments attempted to resolve previous contradictory findings concerning developmental trends in false memories within the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm by using an improved methodology--constructing age-appropriate associative lists. The research also extended the DRM paradigm to preschoolers. Experiment 1 (N = 320) included…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Models, Age Differences, Preschool Children