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Peer reviewedFisher, Celia B.; Braine, Lila G. – Child Development, 1981
Found that preschool children can form abstract concepts of left and right which are not bound to the specific training context: children were able to generalize to new figures and to new spatial locations. The nature of the preschool child's left-right judgments is discussed. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Generalization, Preschool Children
Direct linkCasasola, Marianella – Child Development, 2005
Two experiments explored how infants learn to form an abstract categorical representation of support (i.e., on) when habituated to few (i.e., 2) or many (i.e., 6) examples of the relation. When habituated to 2 pairs of objects in a support relation, 14-month-olds, but not 10-month-olds, formed the abstract spatial category (i.e., generalized the…
Descriptors: Infants, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Classification, Habituation
