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ERIC Number: EJ413789
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
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Children and Adults Learn Family-Resemblance Categories Analytically.
Ward, Thomas B.; And Others
Child Development, v61 n3 p593-605 Jun 1990
Three experiments examined the modes of processing that children and adults use in learning family-resemblance categories. Children and adults exhibited primarily analytic, rather than holistic, modes of learning. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Development, Classification, Concept Formation, Holistic Approach, Learning Processes, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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