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von Helversen, Bettina; Mata, Rui; Olsson, Henrik – Developmental Psychology, 2010
The authors investigated the ability of 9- to 11-year-olds and of adults to use similarity-based and rule-based processes as a function of task characteristics in a task that can be considered either a categorization task or a multiple-cue judgment task, depending on the nature of the criterion (binary vs. continuous). Both children and adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classification, Cues, Children
On Having Complex Representations of Things: Preschoolers Use Multiple Words for Objects and People.

Deak, Gedeon O.; Maratsos, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Two experiments examined preschoolers' ability to apply multiple labels to representational objects and to people. Found that preschoolers reliably produced or accepted several words per entity and accepted a high percentage of class-inclusive and overlapping word pairs. The mean number of words produced in labeling task was related to receptive…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Identification, Performance Factors
Cimpian, Andrei; Markman, Ellen M. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
There is debate about whether preschool-age children interpret words as referring to kinds or to classes defined by shape similarity. The authors argue that the shape bias reported in previous studies is a task-induced artifact rather than a genuine word-learning strategy. In particular, children were forced to extend an object's novel label to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Associative Learning, Word Recognition, Learning Strategies