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Peer reviewedGauvain, Mary; Greene, Joelle K. – Cognitive Development, 1994
Children's knowledge of the use of objects helped determine whether children's actions indicate their understanding of the functional use of objects independent of their ability to verbally describe the object or its function. Found that older children made fewer phenomenism errors but that the majority were still able to show the function of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience
