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Discrimination Learning in Two-Year-Olds
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Daehler, Marvin W.; Bukatko, Danuta – Child Development, 1974
Discrimination learning studied in 3-year-olds, indicated that children over 30 months of age did better than younger children, and girls learned faster than boys after the first problem. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Learning, Perceptual Development
Inferring Properties from Categories versus Inferring Categories from Properties: The Case of Gender.
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Gelman, Susan A.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Tests the distinction between inferring new categories on the basis of property information (predicted to be difficult) and inferring new properties on the basis of category information (predicted to be easier) among 57 preschool children. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Inferences
Developmental Differences in Infants' Attentional Responses to Face-Voice Incongruity of Mother and Stranger
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Cohen, Sarale E. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Developmental Psychology, Eye Fixations
The Development of Children's Beliefs about Social and Biological Aspects of Gender Differences.
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Taylor, Marianne G. – Child Development, 1996
Examined children's beliefs about the origins of gender differences and age-related changes in these beliefs. Findings suggested that young children may have an early bias to view gender categories as predictive of essential, underlying similarities between members but later come to acknowledge the role of other causal mechanisms in shaping how…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Biological Influences, Childhood Attitudes