Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344436

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0344436

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Category learning and conceptual change in children. Fundamental to children's cognitive development is the ability to form concepts and generalize beyond direct experience. This project examines the effect of pre-existing beliefs and new empirical observations on concept learning by children. The cognitive processes involved when children of various ages integrate these different sources of information to form new concepts will be investigated in several knowledge domains. In addition to addressing key theoretical questions about the role of exemplar diversity and sub-typing processes in concept learning the project will develop and evaluate innovative techniques for teaching science concepts to young children.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-01-2004

End Date: 31-03-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $170,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Developmental Psychology And Ageing

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Primary education |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Developmental Psychology And Ageing | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Primary education | Psychology

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