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Peer reviewedChilders, Perry; Wimmer, Mary – Child Development, 1971
Evidence indicated that the awareness of death as universal is a function of age; the understanding of death as irrevocable was not demonstrated systematically through age 10. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age, Cognitive Ability, Concept Formation, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedKing, Michael – Child Development, 1971
Ability to distinguish intention from accident and understanding of unconscious intention were examined in preschool, kindergarten, and third-grade-age children. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Concept Formation, Correlation
Peer reviewedLeCompte, Guney K.; Gratch, Gerald – Child Development, 1972
Development of object identity was studied within the framework of a hiding game that varied the objects themselves instead of their spatial positions. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedScholnick, Ellin Kofsky – Child Development, 1971
Data suggest that the effectiveness of verbalization in concept identification depends on the aspect of the task which is verbalized. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cues, Grade 2, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedLooft, William R. – Child Development, 1971
Children made age judgments on drawing of human figures, which consisted of adult, adolescent, child, and infant characterizations. (Author)
Descriptors: Age, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Hypothesis Testing
Peer reviewedWest, Helen; Abravanel, Eugene – Child Development, 1972
Results clearly demonstrated the existence of perceptual sets in children under 4 years. The interpretation of findings suggests a process whereby the present method was successful in creating the mediating conditions necessary for a perceptual set. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Mediation Theory
Peer reviewedNelson, Katherine – Child Development, 1972
Hypothesis was confirmed that more familiar and more ambiguous concepts would be less readily named in their less detailed representations. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Identification, Perceptual Development, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedScholnick, Ellin Kobsky – Child Development, 1971
Experiment examined the generality of dimensional and cue-location biases in inference and role of directness of information. (Author)
Descriptors: Bias, Concept Formation, Cues, Dimensional Preference
Peer reviewedGoldstein, David M.; Wicklund, David A. – Child Development, 1973
Goal of this study was to obtain information pertaining to what is acquired when children gain the ability to reproduce a diagonal pattern. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Geometric Concepts
Peer reviewedGelman, Rochel; Weinberg, Denise Hootstein – Child Development, 1972
Compensation as assessed by any one test or criterion used is more difficult than conservation. And, the understanding of the compensation principle, as manifested in verbal statements, continues to develop well after the age at which liquid conservation may be taken for granted. (Authors)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Concept), Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)
Peer reviewedEvans, Wilson; Gratch, Gerald – Child Development, 1972
Results do not support Piaget's explanation of object conceptualization. (MB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Error Patterns, Infants
Peer reviewedYouniss, James; Dennison, Ann – Child Development, 1971
Study attempted to specify two complementary aspects of children's inferential size judgments within the context of Piaget's theory. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Logical Thinking
Peer reviewedPufall, Peter B.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Study tests four predictions derived from Piaget's cognitive theory. (CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)
Peer reviewedCiborowski, Tom; Cole, Michael – Child Development, 1972
Two concept-formation experiments were conducted with groups of American and Liberian Ss differing in age and educational background. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedCurcio, Frank; And Others – Child Development, 1971
A combination of readiness and body-part training was the most effective in producing number conservation with external objects. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Data Analysis
