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Peer reviewedWilliams, Tannis MacBeth – Developmental Psychology, 1977
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests, Classification
Lairon, Mary A.; And Others – 1982
Relational-inference, a process associated with developmental change in performance on classification items, was investigated in two experiments. The accuracy and latency with which 20 subjects at each of 3 age levels (8, 11, and adult) stated relationships among concepts were tested. In experiment 1, 40 triplets of concepts related by a class…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Processes
The Development of Letter and Syllable Effects in Categorization, Reading Aloud, and Picture Naming.
Peer reviewedMarmurek, Harvey H. C.; Rinaldo, Richard – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1992
Second and fourth graders and college students categorized one- and two-syllable words. Categorization response times for second graders were related to the number of letters in one-syllable words. Second and fourth graders had longer categorization times than college students for four-letter, two-syllable words. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, College Students, Elementary Education
