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Peer reviewedRakison, David H.; Butterworth, George E. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Examined infants' categorization using object manipulation tasks that involved objects that were models of animals, vehicles, or furniture. Objects were normal, had anomalous moving parts (such as a dog with wheels), or had different textures. Found that 14- to 22-month olds attended to the parts and structural configuration of objects, but not to…
Descriptors: Classification, Foreign Countries, Infants, Object Manipulation
Peer reviewedGottfried, Allen W.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Infants ranging from 6 to 12 months were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) allowed to look at a specified object, (2) allowed to look at and manipulate it, or (3) allowed to look at the object and to manipulate the transparent box in which it was encased. (JMB)
Descriptors: Infants, Learning Modalities, Memory, Object Manipulation
Peer reviewedRakison, David H.; Butterworth, George E. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Two experiments used object-manipulation tasks to examine whether one- to two-year-olds form superordinate-like categories by attending to object parts. Findings indicated that 14- and 18-month-olds behaved systematically toward categories with different, but not matching, parts. Without part differences, none formed superordinate categories.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Classification, Cognitive Development
