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Lin, Pei-Jung; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1990
A total of 30 kindergarten and second, fourth, and sixth grade students from Taiwan and the United States were asked to make category inclusion and typicality judgments for 6 categories. Findings suggested that cultural familiarity with instances plays an important role in the development of category knowledge. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences

Nisan, Mordecai – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Examines the distinction between moral and conventional norms between 60 boys and girls in the first and fourth grades in Israel. Results are interpreted in terms of two distinct orientations to social norms: one where the criteria for social judgment of behaviors are consequences to others and law; the other where norms have absolute validity.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Arabs, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies