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Three Experiences Affecting Spatial Discrimination Learning by Ambulatory Children.

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Cornell, Edward H.; Heth, C. Donald – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980

Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Infants, Learning Processes

When Less Is More: How Infants Learn to Form an Abstract Categorical Representation of Support

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Casasola, 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