Rule-based category use in preschool children.
We report two experiments suggesting that development of rule use in children can be predicted by applying metrics of complexity from studies of rule-based category learning in adults. In Experiment 1, 124 3- to 5-year-olds completed three new rule-use tasks. The tasks featured similar instructions...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Vol. 131; pp. 1 - 19 |
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Mar2015
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