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Animistic Thought in Young Children; Effects of Probing.
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Williamson, Peter A.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Children were asked to judge the life qualities of a stimulus, justify their judgment, and judge again, after being given an anomalous probe. Analysis indicated younger children were unable to adhere to an original judgment when probed, while older children were. Results may reconcile previous empirical discrepancies in Piagetian research.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Perceived Fear of Being Attacked as a Function of Level of Conceptual System Development
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Greaves, George – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Using Spanish as the Language of Instruction with Mexican-American Head Start Children: A Re-Evaluation Using Meta-Analysis.
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Barclay, Lisa K. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
Data from an earlier study of a cognitively based English-language training program for 67 Mexican American Head Start children were reanalyzed using meta-analysis. Spanish as the language of instruction resulted in larger effect sizes. Recently expressed doubts about the efficacy of beginning instruction in non-English speakers' native languages…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, English (Second Language)
The Middleness Concept in Children
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Rohles, Frederick H., Jr. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Attempts to determine the age at which the concept of middleness," or intermediately positioned object, emerges and is functional. (MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Conceptual Development in Advantaged and Disadvantaged Kindergarten Children
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Thomas, Elizabeth C. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation
Developmental Study of Transposition in Young Children.
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Ackles, Patrick K.; Zimmermann, Robert R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1978
Six groups of nursery schoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders balanced for sex were trained and tested on a series of discrimination learning and transposition problems. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Discrimination Learning
Encounter With Information in Selection Paradigm as a Function of Number of Relevant Dimensions
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Dickstein, Louis S. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation
Role of Vocal Labeling in Memory for Object Arrangements by Deaf and Hearing Children
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Chovan, William L. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation