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Coleman, Marilyn; Ganong, Lawrence H. – Home Economics Research Journal, 1983
Describes Parent-Child Interaction, a model designed to instruct parents to teach their preschool children basic cognitive and perceptual skills. Studies testing it are reported. (JOW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Demonstration Programs, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Education
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Happs, John C.; Stead, Keith – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1989
Considered are two commonly used techniques, the interview and word association techniques. Highlighted is a third technique called the repertory grid. This third technique can be used to interpret students' knowledge based on an explicit, psychological theory of human behavior. (Author/CW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Evaluation Methods, Interviews
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Meyer, Mary Alice – Journal of Allied Health, 1980
Presents a theoretical framework and practical suggestions for incorporating games and simulation into allied health instruction. Discusses research findings that support the use of educational simulation/games as tools for higher cognitive learning and for the improvement of teaching effectiveness as measured by student achievement in the allied…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Allied Health Occupations Education, Cognitive Development, Educational Games
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Pea, Roy D. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Investigates in an experimental setting the claim that young children have some knowledge of the rules of correspondence between language and reality which are central to propositional logic. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Ben-Ari, Rachel; Kedem-Friedrich, Peri – Instructional Science, 2000
Describes a study of students in grades three, four, and five that tried an educational application derived from the social constructivism view based on theories of Vygotsky and Piaget to improve cognitive development in a heterogeneous class. Path analysis showed that complex learning techniques are related to cognitive development. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Heterogeneous Grouping, Interpersonal Relationship
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Clum, George A.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Suggests secondary parasuicide prevention is the most viable path for future research. Aggressive case findings and primary prevention approaches have failed to reduce suicide attempt rates. A secondary prevention model, based on factors predictive of parasuicide, was developed. Stress reduction and cognitive restructuring were primary goals of…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Cognitive Development, Prediction
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Murdoch, H. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1994
This article uses a case study of a deaf-blind infant to examine issues in the early cognitive development of such infants. The study used an ecological approach involving naturalistic observation, videotaping, anecdotal accounts, and the use of four global developmental scales. (DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Deaf Blind
Danilova, L. A. – 1983
This four-chapter monograph, translated from a 1977 Russian book written originally in Russian for Russians, describes methodology and results of the study of cognitive activity in children with cerebral palsy. An initial chapter reviews research on impairments in cognitive activity and speech defects in such children and on methods of…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Cognitive Development, Infants, Intervention
Bower, B. – Science News, 1987
Discusses the findings of a recent study concerning the ability of an infant to see an object as a symbol. Reports that infants between 36 and 39 months old significantly outperformed informed infants between 30 and 32 months old on a symbolic task. (TW)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Imagery
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DeLoache, Judy S. – Science, 1987
Reports on a study in which the symbolic relation between a scale model and the larger space that it represents was displayed by two groups of young children. Three-year-old children outperformed 2.5-year-olds in finding an object in a room after seeing an analogous object hidden in a model. (TW)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Imagery
Kovac-Cerovic, Tunde – 1996
This Yugoslavian study aimed to describe the ways in which mothers are (or are not) using the opportunity, created by interacting with their children on tasks which are in the child's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), to foster the child's metacognitive development. The underlying assumption of this study on metacognition is derived from the…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education
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Posner, George J.; Gertzog, William A. – Science Education, 1982
Discusses the use of the clinical interview in assessing cognitive structure and in investigating conceptual change. They caution much more work is needed to increase the applicability and validity of the clinical interview method and point out that there is a lack of systematization in the analysis of interview transcripts. (Author/PB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Evaluation Methods
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Bernier, Joseph E. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1980
A curriculum for counselor training was piloted with inservice counselors and teachers. Significant gains were achieved in counseling skills and moral reasoning, but shifts in ego and conceptual level failed to reach statistical significance. Implications for training are discussed. A case for a developmental perspective is made. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Training
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Rakos, Richard F.; Schroeder, Harold E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
A self-administered assertiveness training program trained refusal of unreasonable requests from strangers and close relationships. Comparison with a placebo program indicated the assertiveness program produced superior effectiveness of assertion, content of assertion, verbalization of assertion-related obligations, persistent assertive…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Development, College Students
Bower, B. – Science News, 1990
Discussed are the results of a study which suggests that people remember more mathematics and other high school material when learning occurs spaced out over several years and when each subsequent session involves broader applications of previously learned information. Highlights of this study and related studies are presented. (CW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Mathematics, High Schools, Higher Education
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