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Peer reviewedFeldman; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
School achievement was positively related to performance on the abstract task and was generally unrelated to performance on the concrete task. (Authors)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Paired Associate Learning
Peer reviewedAckerman, Brian P.; Emmerich, Helen Jones – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Children in two studies were shown a sequence of pictorial paired associates for study. They were subsequently tested for their recognition memory of these items plus an additional four new items that could be recognized if the child engaged in a reasoning-by-exclusion strategy. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Logical Thinking
Kossan, Nancy E. – 1979
This study investigated developmental differences in the use of the common features abstraction strategy and the exemplar learning strategy for concept acquisition. Subjects were 30 second graders and 30 fifth graders. The concepts to be learned were two categories of artificial animals which differed on five dimensions. Each dimension had three…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedDean, Raymond S.; Kundert, Deborah King – Journal of School Psychology, 1981
Experimental results indicated that verbal intelligence was the best predictor of childrens' overall performance on a paired-associate learning task. Teachers' ratings provided a surprising degree of predictive efficiency for abstract recall which was redundant with verbal intelligence. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Aptitude, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
