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Peer reviewedCole, Michael; Medin, Douglas – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
It is urged that investigators lay aside demonstrations of the existence of mediation in young children as focus of research, substituting a search for the conditions of its occurrence. (Authors)
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories, Mediation Theory
Peer reviewedCole, Michael – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Examines the importance of (1) dimensional characteristics of stimuli present in discrimination transfer tasks, (2) having contrasting stimuli presented simultaneously, and (3) subjects age. Subjects were rural Mexican youths, ages 4 to 10. Reversal and nonreversal type discrimination transfer problems were used in the study. (DP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
