Young Children's Use of an Information Source in Self-Instruction / Evan R. Keislar and Jean Phinney.

A total of 24 four-year-old children were posed with the paired-associate task of learning where 9 different animals lived, using apparatus designed for self instruction through picture matching. In Experiment I, children, who were taught to prompt themselves as needed by referring to a picture book...

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Main Authors: Keislar, Evan R.
Phinney, Jean (Author)
Corporate Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Early Childhood Research Center
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1972.
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Physical Description:28 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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