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Cognition without Concepts.
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Smith, Linda B.; Jones, Susan S. – Cognitive Development, 1993
Responds to four commentaries on the article by Jones and Smith in this issue. Suggests that the comments derive from the possibility that stable concepts might not exist and from the difficulty of imagining what cognition could be without represented concepts. Discusses traditional approaches to stability and variability, and considers what…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
The Place of Perception in Children's Concepts.
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Jones, Susan S.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognitive Development, 1993
Reviews current research on children's concepts and categories that reflects a growing consensus that nonperceptual knowledge is central to concepts and determines category membership, whereas perceptual knowledge is peripheral in concepts and only a rough guide to category membership. Argues that there is no compelling basis in theory or in data…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education