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Frazier, Brandy N.; Gelman, Susan A. – Cognitive Development, 2009
This study examined the development of an understanding of authenticity among 112 children (preschoolers, kindergarten, 1st graders, and 4th graders) and 119 college students. Participants were presented with pairs of photographs depicting authentic and non-authentic objects and asked to pick which one belongs in a museum and which one they would…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Museums, Kindergarten, Grade 4
Gelman, Susan A.; Markman, Ellen M. – 1986
A study investigated how young children understand natural kind terms by examining how 3- and 4-year-olds rely on category membership to draw inductive inferences about objects. One hundred four children (53 girls and 51 boys) from six preschools in California and Michigan participated in the study. The children were shown 10 sets of pictures of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Processes