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Schneider, Michael; Rittle-Johnson, Bethany; Star, Jon R. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Competence in many domains rests on children developing conceptual and procedural knowledge, as well as procedural flexibility. However, research on the developmental relations between these different types of knowledge has yielded unclear results, in part because little attention has been paid to the validity of the measures or to the effects of…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Competence
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Mintz, Toben H. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
Two hundred forty English-speaking toddlers (24- and 36-month-olds) heard novel adjectives applied to familiar objects (Experiment 1) and novel objects (Experiment 2). Children were successful in mapping adjectives to target properties only when information provided by the noun, in conjunction with participants' knowledge of the objects, provided…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Pragmatics, Nouns, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)