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Grote, Irene; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
When taught to link sorting to self-instruction ("I'm looking for blue triangles") children show perfect accuracy in sorting. This study investigated if this performance would generalize to new stimuli. One participant showed near-perfect generalization to all new stimulus sets (shapes, letters, pictures); two had difficulty with…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Generalization