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Brislawn, Ferdinand Leo, Jr. – 1971
To determine whether children possess representations and concepts of space before they acquire verbal descriptions of these, children's formation of symbolic representations of space and their acquisition of verbal referents for them were observed. It was found for subjects in the study that conceptual representations of space relations were…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedHarris, Paul – Journal of Child Language, 1975
Three experiments with children between 5 and 7 years are described. It is shown that nominal predication of an unknown word by a superordinate term enables young children to make appropriate inferences concerning its attributes. The results are discussed in relation to semantic development and reasoning in the young child. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedSilliphant, Virginia M. – Psychology in the Schools, 1983
Compared performance of kindergarten children (N=52) on reasoning, visual-motor integration, and verbal development to achievement scores in kindergarten, second grade, and third grade. Results showed relationships between reasoning in kindergarten and achievement on two tests in second grade, but not between kindergarten visual-motor integration…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Kindergarten Children
PDF pending restorationLong, Margaret Wick – 1976
The multiordinal use of terms requires the ability to distinguish essential relationships and attributes from incidental ones. Until the child reaches adolescence, his tendency to confuse incidental and affective factors with those crucial to word meaning hinders his use of terms at all levels of abstraction. Korzybski's theory of multiordinality…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education
Bossone, Richard M., Ed. – 1982
This booklet contains proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the University/Urban Schools National Task Force. The conference was held to present information about four programs designed to help high school students to sharpen their reasoning skills. Criteria for program development state that: (1) the program can be taught to teachers in a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, College Bound Students, Courses
Download full textWilliams, Charlotte L.; Tillman, M. H. – 1968
The effects of age and intelligence levels upon word associations were studied in 96 intellectually retarded, normal, and superior children with IQ's of 65 to 80, 91 to 110, and 117 to 158 respectively. A word association and a word usage task (reliability coefficients of .91 and .98) called for homogeneous responses to six form classes--count…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Adverbs, Age Differences
