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Peer reviewedCallanan, Maureen A.; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 1982
When preschool children think of objects as organized into collections (e.g., forest, army) they solve certain problems better than when they think of the same objects as organized into classes (e.g., trees, soldiers). Present studies indicate preschool children occasionally distort natural language inclusion hierarchies (e.g., oak, tree) into the…
Descriptors: Classification, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Error Analysis (Language)
