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Peer reviewedMcCarrell, Nancy S.; Callanan, Maureen A. – Child Development, 1995
Two studies explored preschool children's beliefs about the relationship between perceptually based similarity among things and their predicted behaviors by focusing on form-function correspondences. Perceptual similarity, if motivated by intuitive beliefs about correspondences between form and function was found to be sufficient basis for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Inferences, Intuition
