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Peer reviewedWilcox, Teresa; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1994
Within a small bounded space, the location of a hidden object can be coded in terms of distance information, general area of hiding, or the boundary of the space. The use of these three coding strategies by infants was examined using a visual search task. Results indicated boundary information and the nature of the change influenced coding of…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Encoding (Psychology), Infants
Peer reviewedGauvain, Mary; Greene, Joelle K. – Cognitive Development, 1994
Children's knowledge of the use of objects helped determine whether children's actions indicate their understanding of the functional use of objects independent of their ability to verbally describe the object or its function. Found that older children made fewer phenomenism errors but that the majority were still able to show the function of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience
