Children's Relative Number Judgments: One-to-One Correspondence, Recognition of Noncorrespondence, and the Influence of Cue Conflict.

Cowan, Richard

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Publication Date: 1984

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Children's Relative Number Judgments: One-to-One Correspondence, Recognition of Noncorrespondence, and the Influence of Cue Conflict.

Cowan, Richard

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v38 n3 p515-32 Dec 1984

Studies five-year-olds' relative number judgements of small and large number displays with and without perceptual aids. Children were found to respond to local rather than global density differences and to benefit from the provision of perceptual aids on both small and large number displays. (Author/AS)

Descriptors: Computation, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Cues, Evaluative Thinking, Number Concepts, Perceptual Development, Preschool Children, Prompting, Teaching Methods, Visual Perception

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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