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Peer reviewedCasasola, Marianella; Cohen, Leslie B.; Chiarello, Elizabeth – Child Development, 2003
Two experiments examined six-month-olds' ability to form an abstract containment category. Results indicated that, after habituation to object pairs in a containment relation, infants looked reliably longer at an example of an unfamiliar versus familiar containment relation, indicating that they could form a categorical representation of…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedPauen, Sabina – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Two experiments investigated whether preverbal infants distinguish between humans and mammals. Study 1 found that 7-, 9-, and 11-month-olds distinguished humans from mammals in an object-examination task. Study 2 found that 7-month-olds but not 5-month-olds showed evidence for category discrimination with the 2-dimensional color photos of toy…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
