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Engle, Randall W.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Tested the hypothesis that retarded children will increase their recall organization after semantic strategy training and that they will generalize their organizational behavior when given novel categories to learn. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Children, Generalization, Learning Processes, Mild Mental Retardation

Horvitz, James M.; Levin, Joel R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Imagery instructions facilitated the performance of sixth-, but not third-graders. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, Imagery

Callanan, Maureen A.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Contrary to the basic-level restraint hypothesis, which suggests that young children learn basic-level words more easily than specific-level words, these five studies show that although other constraints on word meaning may be in place, children are flexible in interpreting new words at different hierarchical levels. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Childhood Attitudes, Classification
What's in a Shape? Children Represent Shape Variability Differently than Adults When Naming Objects.

Abecassis, Maurissa; Sera, Maria D.; Yonas, Albert; Schwade, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Investigated degree to which two shape dimensions were represented categorically by children and adults when learning object names. Found that adults accepted names more often to objects that fell within proposed shape boundaries than to objects that crossed boundaries. Children were just as likely to generalize names to novel objects that fell…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bias, Children

Swanson, H. Lee – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates the extent to which learning disabled readers' atypical encoding relates to their deficiencies in semantic memory by comparing learning disabled and nondisabled readers in two age groups on dichotic listening tasks that included orienting and nonorienting instructions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis

DeBaryshe, Barbara D.; Whitehurst, Grover J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates the role of intraverbal learning (a process through which semantic knowledge is acquired from purely linguistic information) in preschool children's acquisition of semantic concepts. Shows that the relative effectiveness of pictorial and intraverbal information depends on the child's age, the type of information supplied, and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition, Language Processing