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Sandoval, Michelle; Leclerc, Julia A.; Gómez, Rebecca L. – Child Development, 2017
A nap soon after encoding leads to better learning in infancy. However, whether napping plays the same role in preschoolers' learning is unclear. In Experiment 1 (N = 39), 3-year-old habitual and nonhabitual nappers learned novel verbs before a nap or a period of wakefulness and received a generalization test examining word extension to novel…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Sleep, Verbs, Generalization
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Connor, Jane Marantz; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Generalization, Research
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Hupp, Susan C.; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Child Development, 1982
Undertaken within the framework of the best example theory of categorization, this study investigates category acquisition as a function of initial exposure to only good exemplars and as a function of exposure to single as opposed to multiple exemplars. Six severely handicapped children, ranging in age from 8 to 18 years, participated. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Classification, Cognitive Ability