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Peer reviewedRoss, Gail; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Reports a study which examines some of the properties of objects to determine whether the number of different examples of an object concept presented to infants influences concept learning and generalization and to discover whether children's behavior and language in relation to new objects influence learning the concept and generalization to new…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Generalization, Infants
Hupp, Susan C.; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped (JASH), 1981
The learning of categories by six severely handicapped students (8 to 18 years old) was measured within the context of manual sign training. As expected, results supported the best example theory of categorization which suggests that some objects are more representative of their category than others. Implications for classroom material selection…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education
