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Peer reviewedHorton, Marjorie S.; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 1980
Examines the relative utility of exemplar and linguistic information for acquiring basic and superordinate categories. Developmental differences were predicted in the ability to benefit from the linguistically specified information. Preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade children were tested. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedBjorklund, David F.; de Marchena, Melanie R. – Child Development, 1984
Reports two experiments showing a possible developmental shift from memory organization based on associative criteria to an organization based on categorical criteria. Children in first, fourth, and seventh grades were given a sort/recall task with items that could be organized into groups of categorical or associative pairs. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Children, Classification, Cluster Analysis
