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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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Baumgartner, Heidi A.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
When learning object function, infants must detect relations among features--for example, that squeezing is associated with squeaking or that objects with wheels roll. Previously, Perone and Oakes (2006) found 10-month-old infants were sensitive to relations between object appearances and actions, but not to relations between appearances and…
Descriptors: Infants, Manipulative Materials, Visual Stimuli, Auditory Perception
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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