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Verdine, Brian N.; Lucca, Kelsey R.; Golinkoff, Roberta M.; Hirsch-Pasek, Kathryn.; Newcombe, Nora S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
How do toddlers learn the names of geometric forms? Previous work suggests that preschoolers have fragmentary knowledge and that defining properties are not understood until well into elementary school. The current study investigated when children first begin to understand shape names and how they apply those labels to unusual instances. We tested…
Descriptors: Young Children, Geometric Concepts, Toddlers, Naming
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Verdine, Brian N.; Lucca, Kelsey R.; Golinkoff, Roberta M.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathryn; Newcombe, Nora S. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
How do toddlers learn the names of geometric forms? Previous work suggests that preschoolers have fragmentary knowledge and that defining properties are not understood until well into elementary school. The current study investigated when children first begin to understand shape names and how they apply those labels to unusual instances. We tested…
Descriptors: Young Children, Geometric Concepts, Toddlers, School Readiness