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Meinke, Dean L.; And Others – 1973
The study reported involved: (1) development of a concept learning task which embodied complex concepts similar to those included in elementary school curricula, and (2) investigation of the effects of type of thinking, abstract or concrete; grade levels, fourth, sixth, or eighth; and sex upon performance of human Ss with complex concepts of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Teske, John A.; Laird, James D. – 1981
During socialization, individuals begin to understand increasingly broader and more abstract units of personal and social reality. Subjects (N=97) ranging in age from 13 to late middle age completed a linguistic task in which they could impose higher order conceptions on lower order descriptions by identifying different level similarities within…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Classification