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Peer reviewedColey, John D.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 1989
Investigated the interpretation of the word "big" by 40 children of 3 to 5 years. The type and orientation of objects used in the study were varied. Results demonstrated that contextual factors influenced children's responses. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedGelman, Susan A.; Coley, John D. – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Children performed well on tasks involving pictures regardless of whether the pictures were named. Performance on atypical pictures was better when category labels were provided than when labels were not provided. A control study demonstrated that children ignored labels when they named a transient, as opposed to a stable, category. (RH)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Classification, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
