Development of Preschoolers' Learning, Retention, and Generalization of Concepts [electronic resource] / Judith A. Becker and Marion Perlmutter.
This study, which indicates that both age and variation in training affect children's concept formation, provides a basis for explaining the effect of age. Sixty-four 4- and 5-year-olds learned three novel concepts (animal-like, plant-like, and machine-like). Subjects were presented with either...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via ERIC) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Corporate Author: | |
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[S.l.] :
Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse,
1980.
|
| Subjects: |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000002u 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | b6437962 | ||
| 003 | CoU | ||
| 005 | 20080306155041.1 | ||
| 006 | m d f | ||
| 007 | cr un | ||
| 008 | 800901s1980 xx |||| ot ||| | eng d | ||
| 035 | |a (ERIC)ed200324 | ||
| 040 | |a ericd |c ericd |d MvI | ||
| 099 | |f ERIC DOC # |a ED200324 | ||
| 099 | |f ERIC DOC # |a ED200324 | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Becker, Judith A. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Development of Preschoolers' Learning, Retention, and Generalization of Concepts |h [electronic resource] / |c Judith A. Becker and Marion Perlmutter. |
| 260 | |a [S.l.] : |b Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, |c 1980. | ||
| 300 | |a 23 p. | ||
| 500 | |a ERIC Document Number: ED200324. | ||
| 500 | |a Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. |5 ericd. | ||
| 500 | |a Sponsoring Agency: Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Research in Human Learning. |5 ericd. | ||
| 500 | |a Contract Number: NICHHD-HD-00098. |5 ericd. | ||
| 500 | |a Contract Number: NICHHD-HD-01136. |5 ericd. | ||
| 500 | |a Contract Number: NICHHD-HD-07151. |5 ericd. | ||
| 500 | |a Contract Number: NICHHD-HD-11776. |5 ericd. | ||
| 500 | |a ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (88th, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 15, 1980). |5 ericd. | ||
| 500 | |a Educational level discussed: Preschool Education. | ||
| 520 | |a This study, which indicates that both age and variation in training affect children's concept formation, provides a basis for explaining the effect of age. Sixty-four 4- and 5-year-olds learned three novel concepts (animal-like, plant-like, and machine-like). Subjects were presented with either four different examples of each concept (multiple item training condition) or with one example of the concept which was repeated four times (single item training condition). Following acquisition, children identified a set of recognition, generalization, and discrimination items. Neither age nor training condition affected rate of acquisition. Age and training condition affected all other measures (recognition, generalization, and discrimination). Older children and children trained with multiple items generalized more but discriminated less than did other children; these results were obtained even when recognition differences were accounted for. The pattern of results suggests that developmental changes in concept generalization may be due to changes in the liberality of children's response criteria rather than to changes in memory or the ability to abstract information. (Author/MP) | ||
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Age Differences. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Concept Formation. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Discrimination Learning. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Pictorial Stimuli. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Preschool Children. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Preschool Education. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Recognition (Psychology) |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Retention (Psychology) |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Stimulus Generalization. |2 ericd. |
| 700 | 1 | |a Perlmutter, Marion. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a University of Minnesota. |b Institute of Child Development. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED200324.pdf |z Full Text (via ERIC) |
| 907 | |a .b64379620 |b 07-06-22 |c 10-18-10 | ||
| 998 | |a web |b 10-23-12 |c f |d m |e - |f eng |g xx |h 0 |i 1 | ||
| 956 | |a ERIC | ||
| 999 | f | f | |i be08a660-2ae7-5a8c-8aab-6013fccec10c |s 84957dbf-228f-5b32-80a8-2668846e92da |
| 952 | f | f | |p Can circulate |a University of Colorado Boulder |b Online |c Online |d Online |e ED200324 |h Other scheme |i web |n 1 |