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Peer reviewedJacobs, Paul I.; Vandeventer, Mary – Child Development, 1971
Brief training sessions can improve first-graders' performance on double-classification problems. Questions are raised about whether or not the basic intellectual ability underlying performance has also been increased. (WY)
Descriptors: Grade 1, Learning, Logical Thinking, Pictorial Stimuli
Peer reviewedMassari, 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
Peer reviewedMann, Leon – Child Development, 1973
It was concluded that in grade school children the tendency to be reflective in problem solving also entails a disposition to take longer in making decisions. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Conceptual Tempo, Decision Making, Grade 1
Peer reviewedCantor, Joan H.; Spiker, Charles C. – Child Development, 1979
Subjects were trained against their initial dimensional preference in a two-dimensional simultaneous discrimination learning task. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Direct linkAmsterlaw, Jennifer – Child Development, 2006
Two studies investigated children's metacognition about everyday reasoning, assessing how they distinguish reasoning from nonreasoning and "good" reasoning from "bad." In Study 1, 80 1st graders (6-7 years), 3rd graders (8-9 years), 5th graders (10-11 years), and adults (18+ years) evaluated scenarios where people (a) used reasoning, (b) solved…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 5, Grade 3, Metacognition
