The Effect of Children's Spontaneous Cognitive Sets on Discrimination Learning.

Ingison, Linda J.; Levin, Joel R.

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The Effect of Children's Spontaneous Cognitive Sets on Discrimination Learning

Ingison, Linda J.; Levin, Joel R.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 20, 1, 59-65, Aug 75

Two experiments investigated the role of kindergarten and elementary school children's spontaneous cognitive sets in pictorial discrimination learning. Data indicated that, in comparison to the behavior of older children, the behavior of kindergarteners is governed more by the perceptible than by the conceptual attributes of stimuli. (GO)

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conceptual Schemes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Visual Stimuli

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