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Peer reviewedGreene, Terry R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Thirty-six kindergartners were asked to respond to questions and construct figures designed to test their knowledge of hierarchical relations. Subjects had considerable knowledge of subset and superset classification, and could draw transitive inferences with little difficulty; however, they appeared to have little appreciation of the asymmetry…
Descriptors: Classification, Diagrams, Kindergarten Children, Pattern Recognition
Peer reviewedLowe, Richard K. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1996
Shows that the construction of mental representations that capture a situation based on the comprehension of a diagram are mediated by the possession of appropriate background knowledge. Indicates that background knowledge deficiencies may make it difficult for beginning students of a domain to construct suitable mental representations from…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Mapping, Diagrams
