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Cameron, Roy – Child Development, 1984
Relates the problem-solving behavior of second, fourth, and sixth graders to conceptual tempo. Correlations with indices of strategic and efficient performance on a pattern-matching task confirmed that reflectives are more strategic than impulsives. A task-analysis identified the sources of inefficiency for each child and related these sources to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo
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Halford, Graeme S.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Reports the use of a memory load-interference paradigm and the easy-to-hard paradigm as converging operations to study capacity limitations in five- to six-year-old's reasoning. Concludes that transitive inference ability in children is capacity limited. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
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Ackerman, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Examines the relation between attention to target and context information and target recall in an incidental learning task for children and adults. Results support a distinction between context-interactive and context-independent situations and suggest that the attentional patterns that are efficient for memory may differ with the kind of…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education