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Peer reviewedMacnamara, John – Child Development, 1975
A critical examination of two key aspects of Piaget's account of how small children come to understand basic number concepts. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Discrimination Learning, Number Concepts
Peer reviewedTan, Lynne S. C.; Bryant, Peter – Child Development, 2000
Used shift-rate recovery method in three experiments to examine extent to which 6-month-olds find perceptual cues such as density and length useful in discrimination of linearly arranged sets of large numbers of objects. Found that infants can discriminate between large number sets by relying on absolute cues such as density and on relative cues…
Descriptors: Cues, Density (Matter), Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior
