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Peer reviewedDeak, Gedeon O.; Bauer, Patricia J. – Child Development, 1996
Three experiments explored effects of stimulus and task factors on tendency to categorize according to taxonomic relations when those relations conflict with appearances. When provided with information that constrained categorization, preschoolers and adults reliably based their decisions on taxonomic relations between physically dissimilar items.…
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Performance Factors, Preschool Children
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
