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Staller, Joshua; Sekuler, Robert – American Journal of Psychology, 1976
Adults and children judged mirror and nonmirror pairs of stimuli. The findings in this research suggested a nonperceptual explanation of mirror-image confusions, one involving conceptual and linguistic considerations. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Concept Formation, Diagrams

Bjorklund, David F. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1980
Second-, third-, and sixth-grade children (N=48) were presented sets of categorically-related pictures, were either prompted or not prompted to identify categories and later asked to recall categories. Recall time for second- and third-grade prompted children was significantly less than for nonprompted peers. No differences were found with sixth…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation