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Peer reviewedSamuelson, Larissa K.; Smith, Linda B. – Child Development, 2000
Four experiments investigated 3-year-olds' understanding of the differential importance of shape for categorizing solid objects. Found that they categorized rigid and deformable objects differently in a non-naming task and knew that material was important for deformable items and shape for rigid items. In two naming tasks, they generalized names…
Descriptors: Attention, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
