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Download full textKlein, Amelia J. – 1985
Highlighting pertinent research in the area of young children's development of humor, this paper reviews four areas from a cognitive-developmental perspective: (1) humor as a cognitive process, (2) humor and the developmental process, (3) research on young children's humor, and (4) humor and early childhood education. First, the structural…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedButterfield, Earl C.; Nelson, Gregory D. – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1989
Discusses theories of the transfer of teaching based on the theory of common elements and the cognitive theory of elements and mechanisms. Highlights include inferential reasoning; mental models; memory and comprehension; and future directions, including theory development, metrics of transfer distance, psychological and educational research, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Educational Research, Educational Technology
