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Peer reviewedMcCarrell, Nancy S.; Callanan, Maureen A. – Child Development, 1995
Two studies explored preschool children's beliefs about the relationship between perceptually based similarity among things and their predicted behaviors by focusing on form-function correspondences. Perceptual similarity, if motivated by intuitive beliefs about correspondences between form and function was found to be sufficient basis for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Inferences, Intuition
Peer reviewedMunisamy, Susila; Doraisamy, Logeswary – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1998
Discusses the performance of Malaysian secondary school students on a probability concepts test covering various intuitive and taught probability concepts. Describes the establishment of a probability concepts hierarchy and considers probability understanding in relation to independent variables. Boys, Form Six students, and students with a higher…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFischbein, Efraim; And Others – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1991
To investigate the origins and nature of intuitive obstacles affecting the learning of elementary probability theory, 618 Italian elementary and middle school students were interviewed about their methods of solution for several problems dealing with probability. The discussion focuses on four varieties of obstacles to learning prevalent within…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Comprehension, Concept Formation
