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Sutton, Andrew – Educational Studies, 1980
Points out how the theories advanced during the 1930s by Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky can provide insights to western educational psychologists as they seek to understand child development and, particularly, as they devise ways of working with socially disadvantaged and mentally retarded children. (DB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Comparative Education
Downey, John A. – 2002
Various student development theorists have postulated that the collegiate experience is a strong contributor toward cognitive development in college students. This essay examines Kitchener and King's (1981, 1985) reflective judgment model of cognitive development as both a metacognitive exercise and as a particular skill. The development of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, College Transfer Students
Sternberg, Robert J.; Wagner, Richard K. – 1982
This three-part report discusses the concept of intelligence and its importance for educators. Part 1 considers the basic question of what intelligence is. Part 2 discusses the implications of notions of intelligence for schooling, dealing with both the training of content knowledge and the training of intellectual skills. Each of these first two…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Objectives
Anderson, John R. – 1985
According to the ACT theory of skill acquisition, cognitive skills are encoded by a set of productions, which are organized according to a hierarchical goal structure. People solve problems in new domains by applying weak problem-solving procedures to declarative knowledge they have about this domain. From these initial problem solutions,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Experiments, Elementary Secondary Education