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Children's Responses to Objects Differing in Novelty in Relation to Level of Curiosity and Adult Behavior.

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Henderson, Bruce; Moore, Shirley G. – Child Development, 1980

Investigates the exploratory behavior of young children as it relates to individual differences in curiosity, the novelty of the objects explored, and the interactive style employed by an adult experimenter. (Author/MP)

Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Curiosity, Discovery Learning

Age, Typicality, and Task Effects on Categorization of Objects.

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Blewitt, Pamela; Durkin, Marcie – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982

Depending on age and the demands of the task, people may use different processing strategies in object categorization. Three-year-olds used a wholistic approach with strong effects of object typicality on three categorization tasks. Older children and adults showed differential effects of typicality, suggesting various strategies including…

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Classification