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Quinn, Paul C. – Child Development, 2008
J. Kagan (2008) urges contemporary developmentalists to (a) be cautious when attributing conceptual knowledge to infants based on looking-time performance, (b) constrain their interpretation of infant performance with multiple methodologies, and (c) reconsider the possibility that qualitative development may be the path by which perceptual infants…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Infant Behavior, Concept Formation
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Mandler, Jean M. – Developmental Review, 1999
Maintains that Madole and Oakes' hypotheses are incorrect. Shows that conceptual development frequently goes from the abstract to the concrete and that extensive literature shows that there is more than one kind of categorization. Discusses ways in which perceptual and conceptual categorization differ. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Charney, Rosalind – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Pronoun mastery demands a knowledge of speech roles and an ability to identify oneself and others in those roles. Twenty-one girls' knowledge of "my,""your," and "her" was assessed when they were speakers, addressees, and nonaddressed listeners. The children were aware of speech roles only when they themselves occupied these roles. (PJM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
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Madole, Kelly L.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Review, 1999
Responds to Mandler's critique of authors' view of infant categorization. Maintains that their view of infant categorization is not characterized by a shift from one type of category to another but by gradual changes in the kinds of information infants can use in forming categories. Clarifies position regarding a single categorical process using…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Smith, Linda B.; Jones, Susan S. – Cognitive Development, 1993
Responds to four commentaries on the article by Jones and Smith in this issue. Suggests that the comments derive from the possibility that stable concepts might not exist and from the difficulty of imagining what cognition could be without represented concepts. Discusses traditional approaches to stability and variability, and considers what…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
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Madole, Kelly L.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Review, 1999
Demonstrates the need for a process-oriented, constructivist approach to understanding infants' categorization abilities. Suggests that emphasizing the distinction between perceptual and conceptual categorization has been an obstacle to forging an approach. Proposes a more microanalytic consideration of features available to infants at different…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Hawkins, Graham – Environmental Education and Information, 1985
Identifies the principle types of cognitive and affective influences which contribute to the development of an individual's conceptual framework. Explains how external influences affect a child's interpretation of the environment. Urges that multidimensional experiences be offered to children and that students' perceptual levels, personal…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mandler, Jean M. – Cognitive Development, 1993
Comments on the article by Jones and Smith in this issue. Responds to the theses that perceptual information is as much at the core of concepts as is nonperceptual information and that concepts are not represented as such but are computed on-line when needed. Presents a view of the relationship between perception and conceptual knowledge…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
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Mervis, Carolyn B.; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1993
Comments on the article by Jones and Smith in this issue. Describes a program of research that demonstrates the important influence of perception on the structure of concepts. Proposes that both perceptual and nonperceptual information are important to conceptual structure throughout the continuum of knowledge acquisition and that perception is a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
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Gelman, Susan A.; Medin, Douglas L. – Cognitive Development, 1993
Comments on the article by Jones and Smith in this issue. Outlines different perspectives from which the issue of conceptual development is approached, elaborating on the functions concepts serve and variations in those functions. Notes points of agreement with the perceptual knowledge view and offers comments on the research supporting the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
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Caulfield, Rick – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2000
Examines current research on brain development, focusing on infants' ability to understand basic numerical concepts and arithmetic operations. Asserts that as the brain undergoes dramatic transformations, it already has a built-in capacity to understand basic numerical concepts. Recommends that parents and professionals engage in activities…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Development, Computation, Concept Formation
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Barsalou, Lawrence W. – Cognitive Development, 1993
This commentary on the article by Jones and Smith in this issue examines whether coherent conceptual cores exist in long-term memory; abstract propositions constitute conceptual cores; concepts in long-term memory control behavior; and the primary purpose of developing and using concepts is to taxonomize the environment. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
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Subbotsky, Eugene – Developmental Review, 2000
Extends William James' classification of phenomenalistic reality (PR) and analyzes PR using empirical data available in developmental psychology; focuses on the relation of PR to a human subject; to rational constructions; and to the idea of truth. Concludes that the development of phenomenalistic reality is qualitatively different from the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
Hranitz, John R. – 1985
Researchers in medicine, education, and related fields continue to make new discoveries about how the brain functions or malfunctions. The implications of studies of how young children learn compare favorably with those of educators such as Maria Montessori, Jerome Bruner, and Jean Piaget. These researchers saw growth and development as a series…
Descriptors: Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Classroom Environment, Concept Formation
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Sinatra, Richard – Educational Leadership, 1983
Brain research indicates that sensory-motor experiences during childrens' preschool and early school years may be the foundation for later language development. (MLF)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages