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Xu, Fei; Carey, Susan – Cognition, 2000
Responds to Needham and Baillargeon's criticisms and offers an alternative resolution of the conflicting results between the laboratories regarding abilities of infants less than 12 months to use property/featural information for object individuation. Maintains that kind concepts are acquired as infants approach their first birthday and that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
Nunez-Niebuhr, Virginia A.; Jones-Molfese, Victoria – 1976
Piaget, in describing the sequence of classificatory development, describes class inclusion as composed of two processes; hierarchical classification and post-whole comparisons. In the experiment reported here, elementary school children, trained in the concept of sets in first grade mathematics were given a task where they were required to assess…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Classification, Cluster Grouping