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Butler, Lucas P.; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 2012
Children are judicious social learners. They may be particularly sensitive to communicative actions done pedagogically for their benefit, as such actions may mark important, generalizable information. Three experiments (N = 224) found striking differences in preschoolers' inductive generalization and exploration of a novel functional property,…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Evidence, Cues, Inferences
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Smolak, Linda; Levine, Michael P. – Child Development, 1984
Studies 40 children ages 1 to 3 with respect to stage 6 object permanence, representational language, and symbolic play. Examines methodological problems in investigations of Piaget's model of cognitive-linguistic relationships related to the definition of these variables and associated with the use of correlations for data analysis. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Infants, Language Acquisition