Differences in Preschool Children's Conceptual Strategies When Thinking about Animate Entities and Artifacts.

Blanchet, Nicole; Dunham, Philip J.; Dunham, Frances

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Publication Date: 2001

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Differences in Preschool Children's Conceptual Strategies When Thinking about Animate Entities and Artifacts.

Blanchet, Nicole; Dunham, Philip J.; Dunham, Frances

Developmental Psychology, v37 n6 p791-800 Nov 2001

Preschoolers viewed stimulus sets comprised of a sample picture and three types of matches and were asked to choose a match that "went with" each sample. Children's choices indicated that a shift occurs between 3 and 4 years of age from a taxonomic bias to a thematic bias. Animate sample stimuli enhanced children's tendency to adopt thematic conceptual strategies. (Author/KB)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Performance Factors, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Visual Stimuli

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