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Kidd, Evan – Developmental Psychology, 2012
This article reports on an individual differences study that investigated the role of implicit statistical learning in the acquisition of syntax in children. One hundred children ages 4 years 5 months through 6 years 11 months completed a test of implicit statistical learning, a test of explicit declarative learning, and standardized tests of…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Language Acquisition, Syntax, Language Patterns
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Schulz, Laura E.; Standing, Holly R.; Bonawitz, Elizabeth B. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Previous research (e.g., S. A. Gelman & E. M. Markman, 1986; A. Gopnik & D. M. Sobel, 2000) suggests that children can use category labels to make inductive inferences about nonobvious causal properties of objects. However, such inductive generalizations can fail to predict objects' causal properties when (a) the property being projected varies…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Inferences, Influences
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Wang, Su-hua; Kohne, Lisa – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Four experiments examined whether infants' use of task-relevant information in an action task could be facilitated by visual experience in the laboratory. Twelve- but not 9-month-old infants spontaneously used height information and chose an appropriate (taller) cover in search of a hidden tall toy. After watching examples of covering events in a…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Perception, Laboratory Experiments, Child Development