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Download full textShapson, Stanley M. – 1976
A study was designed to investigate the relationship between cognitive style and hypothesis testing strategies used in solving concept attainment problems. A field-independent (FI) and field-dependent (FD) cognitive style group of third grade students were administered concept attainment problems using a blank-trial methodology. The results…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Educational Research
Peer reviewedCowan, Nelson; Nugent, Lara D.; Elliott, Emily M.; Saults, J. Scott – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Examined persistence of sensory memory by studying developmental differences in recall of attended and ignored lists of digits for second-graders, fifth-graders, and adults. Found developmental increase in the persistence of memory only for the final item in an ignored list, which is the item for which sensory memory is thought to be the most…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention, Auditory Perception
PDF pending restorationWartella, Ellen – 1978
A total of 100 third and ninth grade students participated in a study to determine how children of different ages perceptually segment a continuing behavior sequence presented on a television program. The children were shown a short segment from a motion picture on a videotape viewer. Following the viewing, the children completed unitizing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
