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Peer reviewedCallanan, Maureen A. – Child Development, 1985
Reports the results of one study in which parents taught their two- to four-year-olds basic and superordinate concepts, and another, in which they taught them subordinate concepts. Parents' teaching styles were analyzed in terms of their usefulness for children who are attempting to learn about principles of hierarchical classification. (AS)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language
Peer reviewedBrainderd, Charles J. – Child Development, 1974
Preschool children were trained to acquire transitivity, conservation, and class inclusion of length via feedback to their judgments. Feedback was found to facilitate the learning of all three concepts. (ST)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Feedback, Intellectual Development
