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Peer reviewedBrady, Judith E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1983
First-, third-, and fifth-grade children played a board game with another same-age, same-sex child. Results demonstrated why young children are as likely to respond competitively as cooperatively under shared-reward conditions. (BJD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Competition, Context Effect
Download full textNunnally, Jum C. – 1968
The research concerned the association of neutral objects, such as nonsense syllables, with rewards, such as money and candy, in children. Thirty-six subjects were obtained from grades two through six of local public elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee. Associations between neutral objects and rewards were formed in a task concerning…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning
Zimmerman, Marilyn Pflederer; Sechrest, Lee – 1968
A series of five experiments was designed and administered to 679 elementary and junior high school students over a 2-year period to test the relevance of Jean Piaget's concept of conservation to musical learning. Musical tasks consisting of stimulus patterns and systematic variations of these patterns were designed for each experiment, and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
