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Levy, Gary D.; Meller, Paul J. – 1987
This study was designed to determine whether concepts judged by participants as either prototypically social, non-social, animate, or inanimate would be cognitively structured in a manner consistent with E. Rosch's hierarchical model. During the first experiment, 168 undergraduates generated words to be placed in one of the prototypical categories…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Structures, Higher Education, Models
Download full textHalford, Graeme S. – 1996
Explicit representation of relations plays some role in virtually all higher cognitive processes, but relational knowledge has seldom been investigated systematically. This paper considers how relational knowledge is involved in some tasks that have been important to cognitive development, including transitivity, the balance scale, classification…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Perkins, Kyle – 1986
The research reported in this paper is concerned with the ability of students of English as a second language (ESL) to apply cognitive skills in reading. The paper focuses on: (1) a validation study of an experimental test designed to measure Piagetian concrete operations in reading and (2) the effects of the paragraph types (additive or…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Difficulty Level
Maaka, Margaret J.; Wong, Eddie K. – 1994
This study examined whether scripts provide a basis for the categories preschool children use to structure their semantic memories and whether the use of taxonomies to structure memory becomes more common only after children enter elementary school. Subjects were 108 children in three equal groups of 18 boys and 18 girls children each of 4-, 5-,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Tull, Delena – 1992
The assertion that there is a social component to children's construction of knowledge about natural phenomena is supported by evidence from an examination of children's classification schemes for plants. An ethnographic study was conducted with nine sixth grade children in central Texas. The children classified plants in the outdoors, in a…
Descriptors: Botany, Class Activities, Classification, Cognitive Structures
Clark, Sandra L. – 1989
This study investigated the role of knowledge base organization in elementary school students' memory performance. In a preliminary study, students in grades 2, 6, and 10 rated words from three semantic categories for their category representativeness. Results disclosed age-related changes in how children rate words for high and low typicality.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures
