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Peer reviewedMoore, Chris; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Examines the understanding of the pragmatic function of mental terms ("think,""know,""guess") to express the relative certainty of 69 children aged 3-11. Results showed an improvement with age for the "know-think" and "know-guess" contrasts, but no improvement with age for the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedMarks, Lawrence E.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1987
A series of three experiments was conducted to assess the comprehension of four types of cross-modal (synesthetic) similarities in children and adults. Both perceptual and verbal (metaphoric) modes were tested. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Child Development, Children
Peer reviewedHulme, Charles; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Three experiments demonstrate that children four to ten years old, when presented with a series recall task with pictures of common objects having short or long names, showed consistently better recall of pictures with short names. (HOD)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Memorization
Peer reviewedCarpentieri, Sarah; Morgan, Sam B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1996
This study examined the relationship between adaptive functioning and intellectual functioning in 18 children with autism and mental retardation and 20 children with mental retardation. The children with autism showed significantly more impairment in adaptive behavior composite scores, verbal reasoning abilities, socialization skills, and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Autism, Children
Peer reviewedBerk, Laura E. – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Observes 75 first- and third-grade children in their classroom mathematics seatwork to test assumptions drawn from Vygotsky's theory about the development of private speech and its relationship to task performance, attention, and motor behaviors accompanying task orientation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedOppenheimer, Louis – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
Describes two studies investigating the development of recursive thinking in 60 Dutch children five, seven, and nine years of age. The first study replicated earlier research employing a verbal production procedure. The second study used verbal comprehension procedures and concluded that development appears two years earlier than indicated by the…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedBecker, Judith A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Explores the underlying knowledge that children have about the relationship between the structure of requests and the relative status of speakers and listeners. Shows that the three age groups (preschoolers, 5-year-olds, and 10-year-olds) could systematically differentiate the requests by means of syntactic directness or semantics. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development
