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Free Classification in Preschool Children
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Denney, Nancy Wadsworth – Child Development, 1972
The most significant finding is that classification according to complete similarity not only occurs much earlier than reported by Inhelder and Piaget, but also does not follow the developmental course reported by Inhelder and Piaget. (Author)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
The Development of the Distinction Between Perceiving and Memorizing
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Appel, Lynne F.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Preschool, first-grade, and fifth-grade children served as Ss in 2 experiments designed to test the developmental hypothesis that memorizing and perceiving are functionally undifferentiated for the young child, with deliberate memorization only gradually emerging as a separate and distinctive form of cognitive encounter with external data.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Processes
Free Recall of Categorized Items by Children at Three Grade Levels
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Kobasigawa, Akira; Middleton, Donald B. – Child Development, 1972
Study concerned with the question of why older children remember more in categorized free recall. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cluster Grouping, Elementary School Students
Effects of Constrained Recall Training on Children's Performance in a Verbal Memory Task
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Scribner, Sylvia; Cole, Michael – Child Development, 1972
Second, fourth, and sixth graders were trained under conditions of Constrained and Cued recall on a list of randomly ordered nouns comprising 4 categories of things. (Authors)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Cues, Elementary School Students