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Peer reviewedCasasola, Marianella; Cohen, Leslie B.; Chiarello, Elizabeth – Child Development, 2003
Two experiments examined six-month-olds' ability to form an abstract containment category. Results indicated that, after habituation to object pairs in a containment relation, infants looked reliably longer at an example of an unfamiliar versus familiar containment relation, indicating that they could form a categorical representation of…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning
Direct linkCasasola, Marianella – Child Development, 2005
Two experiments explored how infants learn to form an abstract categorical representation of support (i.e., on) when habituated to few (i.e., 2) or many (i.e., 6) examples of the relation. When habituated to 2 pairs of objects in a support relation, 14-month-olds, but not 10-month-olds, formed the abstract spatial category (i.e., generalized the…
Descriptors: Infants, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Classification, Habituation
Peer reviewedEimas, Peter D.; Quinn, Paul C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Examined representation of pictorial exemplars of humans by 3- and 4-month olds. Results demonstrated an asymmetry regarding the exclusivity of categorical representations formed for humans and non-human animals. Categorical representations for humans included exemplar information, whereas categorical representation for non-human animals was based…
Descriptors: Animals, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Stevenson, Harold W. – 1972
This book is a compilation of literature and research concerning how children learn. The first chapter is a historical introduction to research in learning that summarizes the major developments of the last 100 years and relates these developments specifically to children's learning. The main body of the text is divided into six major topics: (1)…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education
Download full textGrace, Janet; Suci, George J. – 1981
A study is undertaken to determine whether the nonlinguistic priority of the agent of an action facilitates the comprehension of word reference. The subjects were twelve male and twelve female infants at the one word stage of language production. The children were presented with three nonsense names (presented as part of a narration of a filmed…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Case (Grammar), Child Language, Concept Formation
Kansas Univ., Lawrence. Kansas Center for Research in Early Childhood Education. – 1972
This volume includes reports of five research projects of the Kansas Center for Research in Early Childhood Education: (1) Individual Differences in Newborn and Young Infants, including research with the Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale and laboratory studies of infant discriminative abilities; (2) Development of Social Competence, including…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation
