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Peer reviewedSimon, Tony; Smith, Peter K. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1985
Eighty preschoolers participated in a study of the usefulness of the lure-retrieval paradigm. Four treatment conditions were compared: In addition to play and training conditions, a questions condition and an alternative-materials control group were employed. Results prompted discussion of theoretical and methodological issues surrounding the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Convergent Thinking, Creativity, Divergent Thinking
Download full textWell, Arnold D.; And Others – 1981
A number of studies have reported that there is a strong tendency to ignore base-rate information in favor of individuating information, except when the former can readily be incorporated into a causal schema. In this study, students in eight undergraduate classes were given problems in which the base-rate information was either causal or…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Science, Concept Formation, Convergent Thinking
"The Big Old Conversation": Reflections on Mathematical Tasks and Discourse. NCRTL Craft Paper 95-5.
Beasley, Kathrene; Featherstone, Helen – 1995
A third-grade teacher and a teacher educator argue that, in an elementary mathematics class in which the teacher is encouraging the children to communicate and justify their mathematical ideas, the features of a mathematical task shape the mathematical discourse. They conjecture that divergent tasks, problems with many correct answers, may…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Convergent Thinking, Discourse Modes
