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Peer reviewedIngison, Linda J.; Levin, Joel R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Two experiments investigated the role of kindergarten and elementary school children's spontaneous cognitive sets in pictorial discrimination learning. Data indicated that, in comparison to the behavior of older children, the behavior of kindergarteners is governed more by the perceptible than by the conceptual attributes of stimuli. (GO)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conceptual Schemes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Download full textIngison, Lind J.; Levin, Joel R. – 1974
Two experiments investigated the role of children's spontaneous conceptual "biases" in pictorial discrimination learning. The results suggested that such biases may serve either to facilitate or to interfere with discrimination learning. Moreover, in each experiment, age by treatment interactions revealed that in comparison to the behavior of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bias, Children, Cognitive Development
