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Margett, Tessa E.; Witherington, David C. – Child Development, 2011
This study investigated preschoolers' living kinds conceptualization by employing an extensive stimulus set and alternate indices of understanding. Thirty-four 3- to 5-year-olds and 36 adult undergraduates completed 3 testing phases involving 4 object classes: plants, animals, mobile, and immobile artifacts. The phases involved inquiries…
Descriptors: Testing, Preschool Children, Undergraduate Students, Biology
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Hayes, Brett K.; McKinnon, Rachel; Sweller, Naomi – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Three studies examined the development of category-based induction using an induction then recognition (ITR) procedure in which participants make category-based predictions about study items and are then given a surprise recognition test that requires discrimination between old and new category members. Exposure duration for study items was either…
Descriptors: Children, Logical Thinking, Classification, Prediction
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Smith, Linda B. – Psychological Review, 1989
The developmental trend from overall-similarity to dimensional-identity classifications is explained by a quantitative model. The model provides good qualitative fits to the extant data. Three experiments examining classifications in 120 2- to 8-year-olds and in 20 undergraduates support specific new claims of the model. (TJH)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Child Development, Classification