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Peer reviewedWellman, Henry M.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Four studies explored preschoolers' understanding of thought bubbles depicted in cartoons. Few three- and four-year olds knew what a thought-bubble depiction was without instruction, but if simply told that the thought bubble "shows what someone is thinking," the majority easily understood the devices as depicting thoughts generally and…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedPillow, Bradford H.; Flavell, John H. – Child Development, 1986
Four experiments investigated three- and four-year-old children's knowledge of projective size-distance and projective shape-orientation relationships. Results indicated that preschool children's understanding of these relationships seems at least partly cognitive rather than wholly perceptive, providing further evidence for the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Preschool Children, Spatial Ability
Peer reviewedSandberg, Elisabeth Hollister; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Two studies of development of spatial representation with two dimensions found that children as young as five years use the same two independent dimensions in fine-grained spatial coding of location in a circle as adults use--radius and angle. The adult pattern, where angle as well as radius is coded hierarchically, emerges by nine years. (HTH)
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
