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Peer reviewedMendelsohn, Eve; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1984
In a classification task, preschoolers matched a target stimulus with a conventional category, a visually similar item that cut across conventional categories, or an unrelated item. Items were presented in picture, verbal, and picture-verbal conditions. In all conditions, conventional classifications outnumbered visual ones, and this difference…
Descriptors: Classification, Memory, Metaphors, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedKau, Alice S. M.; Winer, Gerald A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
The incidental memory of young children was tested for words or words plus pictures that were initially presented under orienting conditions. These conditions required responses to acoustic or semantic qualities of the stimuli and an affirmative or negative response to the orienting questions. (PCB)
Descriptors: Acoustics, Age Differences, Incidental Learning, Memory
Young Children's Perception and Comprehension of Metaphorical Similarities in Pictures and in Words.
Download full textEpstein, R. L.; Gamlin, P. J. – 1987
This study was designed to determine whether children 3, 4, and 5 years of age could demonstrate their metaphorical competence equally well in words and in pictures. Previous studies which have investigated young children's metaphorical ability have often encouraged young children to make judgments of similarity which rely almost exclusively on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
