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Peer reviewedSmith, Linda B.; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Examined three-year-old children's ability to generalize novel words to new instances. Suggested that children's similarity judgments and feature selection in name generalization are guided by nonstrategic attentional processes that are minimally influenced by new conceptual information. Proposed that these findings may explain the extraordinary…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Generalization
Peer reviewedFroese, Victor – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
