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Peer reviewedWilcox, Teresa; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1994
Within a small bounded space, the location of a hidden object can be coded in terms of distance information, general area of hiding, or the boundary of the space. The use of these three coding strategies by infants was examined using a visual search task. Results indicated boundary information and the nature of the change influenced coding of…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Encoding (Psychology), Infants
Peer reviewedHuttenlocher, Janellen; Smiley, Patricia – Cognitive Psychology, 1987
Three types of overgeneral uses of object names by young children were identified. Production data from 10 children were obtained using a standardized method of recording utterance contexts. Results showed that, like adults, children's object categories applied to objects of particular kinds. Most overgeneral uses were attributable to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Development, Encoding (Psychology)
Peer reviewedAckerman, Brian P.; McGraw, Megan – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
Children and adults listened to stories that contained a goal sentence and an inconsistent outcome. Several encoding and retrieval factors were simultaneously manipulated in the stories. Interaction effects in situations with weak encoding constraint decreased with age. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students, Cues
