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Inhelder and Piaget's Pendulum Problem: Teaching Preadolescents to Act as Scientists
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Siegler, Robert S.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Ten- and 11-year-old boys and girls were taught to solve Inhelder and Piaget's pendulum problem and the results of the experiment replicated their expectation that unaided 10- and 11-year-olds do not often solve the pendulum problem. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Data Collection, Elementary School Students, Experiments
From Children's Hands to Adults' Ears: Gesture's Role in the Learning Process.
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Singer, Melissa A. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Asked eight adults to instruct third- and fourth-graders individually in a math problem. Found that the adults offered more variable instruction to children who produced gesture-speech mismatches than to children with no mismatches--more types of instructional strategies and more instructions that contained two different strategies, one in speech…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Body Language, Children, Interpersonal Communication
Sensitivity and Teaching by Dysphoric and Nondysphoric Women in Structured versus Unstructured Situations.
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Goldsmith, Denise Fitz; Rogoff, Barbara – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Compared the sensitivity and teaching strategies of white, middle-class dysphoric and nondysphoric women working with unfamiliar five- and six-year olds during classification tasks and unstructured activities. Found that nondysphoric women were more sensitive to children's level of understanding than dysphoric women and were more likely to use a…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology), Middle Class Parents