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Peer reviewedCharbonneau, Claude; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Twenty first-graders observed an adult model perform a quantity conservation task. The children were then tested on a series of generalization tasks immediately, after one week, and after three months. The results suggested that the social experience of observation appeared to activate a cognitive restructuring of the children's mental operations.…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept)
