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Peer reviewedBloom, Paul; Markson, Lori – Cognition, 2001
Notes young children's fast mapping ability for word and fact learning. Finds children's extension of a new word to novel objects from same category but lack of extension for new facts, as replicated by Waxman and Booth, unsurprising. Poses more interesting question: is word learning done solely through more general cognitive systems or through…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Mapping, Generalization, Learning Processes
