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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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Vinter, Annie; Perruchet, Pierre – Child Development, 2000
Examined implicit learning in 432 four- to 10-year-olds in 3 experiments, using a new paradigm based on drawing behavior. Found that children modified drawing behavior following specially devised practice in such a way that the changes could not be viewed as resulting from deliberate adaptive strategies, with modifications lasting for at least 1…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Freehand Drawing, Learning Processes
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Brainderd, Charles J. – Child Development, 1974
Preschool children were trained to acquire transitivity, conservation, and class inclusion of length via feedback to their judgments. Feedback was found to facilitate the learning of all three concepts. (ST)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Feedback, Intellectual Development
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Jacobson, Leonard I.; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Economically Disadvantaged, Intellectual Development