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Peer reviewedYounger, Barbara A.; Cohen, Leslie B. – Child Development, 1986
Examines developmental change in 4- 7- and 10-month-old infants' perceptions of correlations among attributes to determine whether relational information plays a role in abilities ranging from the perception and recognition of a simple pattern to the formation of a category. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedGoldstein, David M.; Wicklund, David A. – Child Development, 1973
Goal of this study was to obtain information pertaining to what is acquired when children gain the ability to reproduce a diagonal pattern. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Geometric Concepts
Peer reviewedDrummond, Thomas B.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
In a schematic concept formation task, second and fifth graders were required to sort 60 computer-generated, 8-sided polygons into two classes. The results indicated that age differences in schematic concept formation are due more to the efficiency of information use than to differences in strategy or the selection of information to be used. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
