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Children's Learning and Transfer of Inductive Reasoning Rules: Studies of Proximal Development.
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Ferrara, Roberta A.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Two studies examined the relation between current developmental levels, as estimated by IQ, and proximal levels of development, as estimated by the efficiency of learning and transfer in assisted contexts. Subjects were 8- to ll-year-old children. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Young Children's Remembering in Different Contexts: A Reinterpretation of Istomina's Study.
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Weissberg, Jill A.; Paris, Scott G. – Child Development, 1986
Extends and replicates the 1948 Soviet study by Istomina that examined the age at which children use deliberate strategies to aid recall and the effect that task context has on remembering. Subjects were 3- to 7-year-old children. Istomina's results were not replicated in this study. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
The Effects of Context on Referential Communication Strategies.
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Kahan, Lisa D.; Richards, D. Dean – Child Development, 1986
Examines the communication strategies adopted by people of differing ages attempting to perform a referential communication task and to determine their ability to adapt their strategies to various task conditions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, College Students