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Peer reviewedWaxman, Sandra R.; Lynch, Elizabeth B.; Casey, K. Lyman; Baer, Leslie – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Three experiments examine how preschoolers partition their basic level categories to form subordinate level categories and whether these have inductive potential. Results suggest that contrastive information promotes the emergence of subordinate categories as a basis of inductive inference and newly established subordinate categories can retain…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Induction, Inferences
