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The Empirical Violation of Conservation Laws and Its Relation to Structural Change
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Strauss, Sidney; Liberman, Dov – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
In a study, few subjects accepted empirical evidence of nonconservation of discontinuous quantity and weight. These findings were interpreted as support for the organismic-developmental claim that lower forms of reasoning are transformed into structurally more advanced forms. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Psychology
Developmental Trends in the Use of Perceptual and Conceptual Attributes in Grouping, Clustering, and Retrieval.
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Melkman, Rachel; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
A grouping task revealed a chronological progression: color and form determined the 4-year-old children's grouping about equally; form dominated in the 5-year-olds; and 9-year-olds grouped primarily by conceptual attributes. Performance on a memory task showed the developmental shift from color to form to concept, while cued recall showed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Classification, Cluster Grouping
Cognitive Antecedents of Early Reading Ability: A Test of the Modularity Hypothesis.
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Shatil, Evelyn; Share, David L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Evaluated hypothesis that cognitive antecedents of word recognition are domain-specific and unrelated to higher-order domain-general cognitive abilities in a longitudinal study of Hebrew-speaking children. Found that kindergarten domain-specific measures accounted for 33 percent of variance in Grade 1 word recognition, even after controlling for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries