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Wimmer, Marina C.; Howe, Mark L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
We investigated children's ability to generate associations and how automaticity of associative activation unfolds developmentally. Children generated associative responses using a single associate paradigm (Experiment 1) or a Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM)-like multiple associates paradigm (Experiment 2). The results indicated that children's…
Descriptors: Models, Experiments, Children, Concept Formation
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Straatemeier, Marthe; van der Maas, Han L. J.; Jansen, Brenda R. J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
In the field of children's knowledge of the earth, much debate has concerned the question of whether children's naive knowledge--that is, their knowledge before they acquire the standard scientific theory--is coherent (i.e., theory-like) or fragmented. We conducted two studies with large samples (N = 328 and N = 381) using a new paper-and-pencil…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Concept Formation, Knowledge Level, Earth Science
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Droit-Volet, Sylvie; Wearden, John H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Trained 3-, 5-, and 8-year-olds in temporal bisection task, with nonstandard comparison stimuli spaced linearly between short or long standard visual stimuli. Statistical analyses and results from different theoretical models of the data all suggested that temporal sensitivity was higher in the 8-year-olds than in younger groups, even when the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Rosenthal, Ted L.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cluster Grouping, Concept Formation, Generalization