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Echols, Catharine H. – 1991
Two studies tested the observation that infants learn to use a "whole object assumption" between the ages of 8 and 15 months, meaning that they expect a word to apply to the whole object to which it refers. The first study investigated the possibility that infants of 8 to 10 months may attend differently, and more selectively, to events…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Attention, Cognitive Development
Download full textSinger, Mihaela – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
The paper is focused on recent researches in neuroscience and developmental psychology regarding mathematical abilities of infants. A model that tries to explain these findings is developed. The model underlies the mental operations that could be systematically trained to generate efficient school learning. The model is built from a cognitive…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Teaching Methods
