Knowledge enrichment and conceptual change in folkbiology: evidence from Williams syndrome
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A study was conducted to analyze the ability of adolescents and adults with Williams syndrome to acquire conceptual change concepts using an empirical approach. Materials on the development of folkbiology were used as probes for biological understanding. The probes were then categorized into two batteries according to the hypothesized distinction of general knowledge and folkbiological concepts. Results indicated that persons with Williams syndrome had a differential impairment in acquiring conceptual change concepts.
Publication Name: Cognitive Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0010-0285
Year: 1998
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Never getting to zero: Elementary school students understanding of the infinite divisibility of number and matter
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Children's conceptualization of rational number and of certain extensive physical quantities is administered. Children's spontaneous acknowledgement of the existence of numbers between zero and one was strongly related to their induction that numbers are infinitely divisible in the sense that they can be repeatedly divided without getting to zero.
Publication Name: Cognitive Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0010-0285
Year: 2005
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Spontaneous representations of small numbers of objects by rhesus macaques: examinations of content and format
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Spontaneous representations are of considerable theoretical interest, for they reflect features of the world that are salient to the participants in the studies and provide evidence concerning their representation of the world. Comparative research program on spontaneous representations of number in primates are conducted.
Publication Name: Cognitive Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0010-0285
Year: 2003
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