NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Precocious Thoughts on Number: The Long and the Short of It
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Pufall, Peter B.; Shaw, Robert E. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
In this study children between the ages of 3 and 6 years were each presented with six number problems in which length and density were varied according to the proposed composition rules. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Data Analysis
Evolution of the Human Figure in a Three-Dimensional Medium
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Golomb, Claire – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Study analyzes figures children make with playdough, a different medium that provides evidence related to two opposing theories of the development of representation. (Author)
Descriptors: Art Materials, Concept Formation, Construction (Process), Human Body
A Connectionist Account of Asymmetric Category Learning in Early Infancy.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Mareschal, Denis; French, Robert M.; Quinn, Paul C. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Describes connectionist model showing exclusivity asymmetries when categorizing visual stimuli, similar to pattern shown by infants. Examines asymmetries in terms of an associative learning mechanism, distributed internal representations, and statistics of feature distributions in the stimuli. Details test of model with infants, finding that…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Infant Behavior, Infants
Modeling by Exemplification and Instruction in Training Conservation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Rosenthal, Ted L.; Zimmerman, Barry J. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Four experiments are described in which observational learning was found on multidimensional conservation tasks. (MB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Cultural Differences, Data Analysis
Quantitative Models for Children's Concept Learning from a Developmental Perspective
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Block, Karen K.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Results showed that reversal shift was easier than extradimensional shift and that relative shift difficulty was unaffected by instructions, in contrast to findings with college-age subjects. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology
Role of Atypical Exemplars of Social and Nonsocial Superordinate Categories within the Class Inclusion Paradigm.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Lane, Mary Kay; Hodkin, Barbara – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Demonstrates the usefulness of the inclusion paradigm as a methodological tool in providing information about the conceptual breadth of selected social and nonsocial superordinate categories in children who exhibit some degree of inclusion logic. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Classification, Concept Formation