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Peer reviewedSaarnio, David A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1992
Investigated the hypothesis that preschoolers encode perceptual attributes, but not conceptual attributes, of objects in recall tasks. Children were asked to recall typical and atypical objects, or objects that varied in typicality and size. Children were influenced by both conceptual and perceptual stimulus characteristics. (LB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Encoding (Psychology), Perceptual Development, Preschool Children
