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Peer reviewedLeff, Herbert L.; And Others – Environment and Behavior, 1974
Individuals may be able to exert considerable control over their perceptual experience and environmental awareness by deliberately varying their "cognitive sets" - plans for selecting and processing information. This theme is explored and a research project, which included eleven experiments, on the effects of cognitive sets is reported. (BT)
Descriptors: Behavior, Cognitive Development, Environment, Environmental Education
Peer reviewedHerman, James F.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Second and third graders and fifth and sixth graders were tested in a very large, unfamiliar environment to determine the relation of their knowledge of an abstract reference frame to performance on a spatial inference task. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Download full textBlaut, J. M. – 1971
A research project of environmental learning in children is discussed. Most of the studies conducted during the research involved observation of children aged 3-12, in mapping and free environmental behavior, and in curricular experiments using perceptual surrogates for map-learning and macro-environmental conceptualization in the lower elementary…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
