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Spatial Experiences of High Academic Achievers: Insights from a Developmental Perspective
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Weckbacher, Lisa Marie; Okamoto, Yukari – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2012
The study explored the relationship between types of spatial experiences and spatial abilities among 13- to 14-year-old high academic achievers. Each participant completed two spatial tasks and a survey assessing favored spatial activities across five categories (computers, toys, sports, music, and art) and three developmental periods (early…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Student Surveys, Developmental Tasks
Animism Begins at Forty: Evidence that Animism and Other Naive Beliefs Are Established before the Onset of Old Age
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Parry, Robert; Stuart-Hamilton, Ian – Educational Gerontology, 2010
Animism (erroneously believing inanimate objects are alive) is present in older adults (McDonald & Stuart-Hamilton, 2000). However, it is unclear if animism arises in later life or middle age. The current study tested 34 middle-aged adults (mean age 48 years) on Piaget's animism task and found a significant level of animism. Strength of…
Descriptors: Adults, Multiple Regression Analysis, Educational Gerontology, Beliefs
Developmental Patterns of School Students' Motivational- and Cognitive-Metacognitive Competencies
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Mok, Yan Fung; Fan, Ruth Mei-Tai; Pang, Nicholas Sun-Keung – Educational Studies, 2007
This study examined the metacognitive developmental patterns of Hong Kong school students. Students rated their own metacognitive competencies by responding to an inventory of six motivational- and cognitive-metacognitive subscales. Results showed that students' metacognitive competencies decreased with age--from primary 4 (age 9) to secondary 5…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Metacognition, Minimum Competencies
Task Switching Across the Life Span: Effects of Age on General and Specific Switch Costs
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Reimers, Stian; Maylor, Elizabeth A. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
The authors investigated age-related changes in executive control using an Internet-based task-switching experiment with 5,271 participants between the ages of 10 and 66 years. Speeded face categorization was required on the basis of gender (G) or emotion (E) in single task blocks (GGG... and EEE...) or switching blocks (GGEEGGEE...). General…
Descriptors: Puberty, Gender Differences, Psychological Patterns, Age Differences
Horizontal Structure: A Neo-Piagetian Analysis of Structural Parallels across Domains.
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McKeough, Anne M. – 1987
An analysis of children's narrative composition and art revealed concurrent development at both a general structural level and at a fine-grained detail level. A three-part study investigated whether this general cognitive pattern would be maintained across a different range of tasks: literary composition, scientific reasoning, and working memory.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Two Teaching Strategies: Their Effectiveness with Students of Varying Cognitive Abilities.
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Cohen, Herbert G. – School Science and Mathematics, 1992
Presents a study to examine the effects of a verbal teaching strategy versus a strategy providing instruction using activities and manipulatives in four seventh grade earth science classes with students of varying cognitive abilities (n=83). Results indicate that students with more cognitive structures perform better and that using manipulatives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures