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Bryce, Tom G. K.; Blown, Eric J. – Research in Science Education, 2021
This article closely examines (a) the "representational" connotation which is often implicit in many analyses of the scientific knowledge which children have (or have not) acquired when they are asked to say or show what they know and (b) the still common-place presumption that recollections are akin to the extraction of ideas from a…
Descriptors: Children, Recall (Psychology), Intuition, Knowledge Level
Rosenquist, Celia – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2000
A study examined whether exemplar-specific or prototype representations were primarily used by 28 children (ages 10-12) with mild mental retardation in a categorization task consisting of two groups of make-believe animals whose features were ill-defined. Results indicated the children were able to acquire and use both types of representations.…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes