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Peer reviewedKnight, Carol A.; Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky – Child Development, 1973
Groups trained to compare the whole and subset improved in cue identification from negative instances; performance in the stimulus exposure group declined. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Cues, Data Analysis
Download full textPrentice, Joan L.; Panda, Kailas C. – 1970
Experiment I was designed to demonstrate that young children fail to abstract the positive cue as the relevant stimulus event in a restricted concept-learning task. Sixteen kindergarten and 16 fourth grade subjects were trained to criterion on a Kendler-type task, whereupon each subject was presented a pair of new instances which contrasted only…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Ability, Children, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedTighe, Thomas J.; Tighe, Louise S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Presolution reversal prevented or significantly retarded learning in kindergarten and first-grade children but did not hinder learning in fifth-grade children. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Cues, Data Analysis
