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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Role of Maternal Verbal, Affective, and Behavioral Support in Preschool Children's Independent and Collaborative Autobiographical Memory Reports
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Larkina, Marina; Bauer, Patricia J. – Cognitive Development, 2010
The authors investigated the individual and relative contributions of different aspects of maternal support (i.e., verbal, affective, and behavioral) in relation to children's collaborative and independent reminiscing. Four-year-old children discussed personal past experiences with their mothers and with a researcher. In collaborative recall with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Preschool Children, Memory, Role
Effects of Prototypicality on Categorization in 1- to 2-Year-Olds: Getting Down to Basic.
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Bauer, Patricia J.; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1995
Tested 13-, 16-, and 20-month olds' and 24- and 28-month olds' categorization of global- and basic-level object sets composed of prototypical and nonprototypical exemplars. Findings offer new information on the effects of prototypicality and on the process of differentiation of early global categories into more specific basic-level ones. (DR)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
The Fabric of an Event: Different Sources of Temporal Invariance Differentially Affect 24-Month-Olds' Recall.
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Bauer, Patricia J.; Travis, Lisa L. – Cognitive Development, 1993
Compared 24 month olds' ordered recall of events constrained by enabling relations with that of arbitrarily ordered events equated for familiarity and temporal invariance. Children's ordered recall of events constrained by enabling relations was superior to that of arbitrarily ordered ones, indicating that, after experience with an event in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Long Term Memory, Pattern Recognition, Recall (Psychology)