Same, varied, or both? Contextual support aids young children in generalizing category labels

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 150-162

  Goldenberg, Elizabeth R ^a   Sandhofer, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate; Cognitive Development; Context; Decontextualize; Generalization; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84875496397     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

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