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Direct linkDillon, Moira R.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The origins and development of our geometric intuitions have been debated for millennia. The present study links children's developing intuitions about the properties of planar triangles to their developing abilities to read purely geometric maps. Six-year-old children are limited when navigating by maps that depict only the sides of a triangle in…
Descriptors: Intuition, Geometry, Child Development, Maps
Brandone, Amanda C.; Gelman, Susan A.; Hedglen, Jenna – Cognitive Science, 2015
Generic statements express generalizations about categories and present a unique semantic profile that is distinct from quantified statements. This paper reports two studies examining the development of children's intuitions about the semantics of generics and how they differ from statements quantified by "all," "most," and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Intuition, Semantics, Preschool Children
Kalish, Charles W.; Zhu, XiaoJin; Rogers, Timothy T. – Developmental Science, 2015
Psychological intuitions about natural category structure do not always correspond to the true structure of the world. The current study explores young children's responses to conflict between intuitive structure and authoritative feedback using a semi-supervised learning (Zhu et al., 2007) paradigm. In three experiments, 160 children between the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Child Development, Young Children, Intuition
