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Searching and Planning: Young Children's Reasoning about Past and Future Event Sequences
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McColgan, Kerry L.; McCormack, Teresa – Child Development, 2008
Six experiments examined children's ability to make inferences using temporal order information. Children completed versions of a task involving a toy zoo; one version required reasoning about past events (search task) and the other required reasoning about future events (planning task). Children younger than 5 years failed both the search and the…
Descriptors: Cues, Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Inferences
Conditional Discrimination Learning in Children: Two Relevant Factors
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Doan, Helen McK.; Cooper, Deborah L. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Conditioning, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children
Effects of Exposure to Models on Concept Identification in Kindergarten and Second-Grade Children
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Ryan, David; Kobasigawa, Akira – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Cues, Generalization
Field Dependence and Outer-Directedness in the Problem Solving of Retardates and Normal Children
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Massari, David J.; Mansfield, Richard S. – Child Development, 1973
It is suggested that field dependents have more difficulty than field independents in giving up reliance on a formerly relevant cue. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cognitive Ability, Cues, Grade 1
Outerdirectedness and Imitative Behavior of Institutionalized and Noninstitutionalized Younger and Older Children
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Zigler, Edward; Yando, Regina – Child Development, 1972
Outerdirectedness has been defined by first author and his colleagues as a style of problem solving characterized by reliance on concrete situational cues rather than by active attempts to deduce abstract relationships. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cues, Data Analysis
Discrimination Learning in Normal and Retarded Children as a Function of Instructions, Cue Locus, and Cue Relevance
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Drotar, Dennis – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Handicapped Children