Equal spacing and expanding schedules in children's categorization and generalization

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 129-137

  Vlach, Haley A ^a   Sandhofer, Catherine M ^b   Bjork, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Category learning; Cognitive development; Expanding learning schedules; Forgetting; Novel noun generalization; Spacing effect

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEACHING; TIME;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEACHING; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84899083086     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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