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Kalish, Charles W.; Lawson, Christopher A. – Child Development, 2008
Three experiments explored the significance of deontic properties (involving rights and obligations) in representations of social categories. Preschool-aged children (M = 4.8), young school-aged children (M = 8.2), and adults judged the centrality of behavioral, psychological, and deontic properties for both familiar (Experiments 1 and 2, Ns = 50…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Children, Adults, Social Cognition
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Gershkoff-Stowe, Lisa; Thal, Donna J.; Smith, Linda B.; Namy, Laura L. – Child Development, 1997
Three studies examined the developmental relationship between early linguistic and cognitive achievements. Findings showed that children's ability to classify objects in a spatial or temporal order was independent of advances in productive vocabulary growth, suggesting that developments in categorization and naming depend on abilities in addition…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classification, Individual Development
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Oakes, Lisa M.; Madole, Kelly L. – Child Development, 2000
Calls for a process-oriented approach to study of categorization in infancy. Maintains that further understanding of infant categorization and its changes with development requires a more direct assessment of infants' category formation. Argues that two research directions will enhance understanding of categorization: (1) contextual variations on…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes