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ERIC Number: EJ145302
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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Kindergarten Children's Use of Category Membership
Westman, Alida S.; Youssef, Zakhour I.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 21, 3, 507-513, Jun 76
Seventy kindergarten children learned to order 12 objects that were well known and either unrelated or categorizable into well-known categories. Free recall was assessed. Results indicated the children used category membership both to learn and to recall the items. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children, Memorization, Memory, Recall (Psychology), Research
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Identifiers: Category Membership (Concept)