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Direct linkFyfe, Emily R.; McNeil, Nicole M.; Rittle-Johnson, Bethany – Child Development, 2015
The labels used to describe patterns and relations can influence children's relational reasoning. In this study, 62 preschoolers (M[subscript age] = 4.4 years) solved and described eight pattern abstraction problems (i.e., recreated the relation in a model pattern using novel materials). Some children were exposed to concrete labels (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Problem Solving, Logical Thinking, Classification
Peer reviewedNorman, Dennis K. – Child Development, 1980
Results showed that the performance of the suburban and urban 10-year-olds on a Piaget-based map drawing task did not differ significantly, while the Appalachian children performed significantly better than one or both of the other groups on three out of the four spatial concepts. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Comparative Analysis, Environmental Influences
