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Peer reviewedMcLaurin, William A.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Educational Research
Peer reviewedBlewitt, Pamela; Durkin, Marcie – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Depending on age and the demands of the task, people may use different processing strategies in object categorization. Three-year-olds used a wholistic approach with strong effects of object typicality on three categorization tasks. Older children and adults showed differential effects of typicality, suggesting various strategies including…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Classification
