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Children's Comprehension of Simple Descriptions of Vertical Arrays
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Friedenberg, Lisa; Olson, Gary M. – Child Development, 1977
Administration of a placement task to 66 preschool and grade school children revealed that the concept of higher/lower was understood earlier than above/below, which in turn was understood earlier than rising/falling. Within each pair of terms, the one referring to upness was comprehended earlier. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
Children's Judgments of Age
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Looft, William R. – Child Development, 1971
Children made age judgments on drawing of human figures, which consisted of adult, adolescent, child, and infant characterizations. (Author)
Descriptors: Age, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Hypothesis Testing
On the Acquisition of Front, Back, and Side
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Kuczaj, Stan A., II; Maratsos, Michael P. – Child Development, 1975
Presents a study which assessed preschool children's understanding of "front,""back," and "side" through a variety of tasks. A developmental sequence is defined. (ED)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes
Training and Transfer of Transitivity, Conservation, and Class Inclusion of Length
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Brainderd, Charles J. – Child Development, 1974
Preschool children were trained to acquire transitivity, conservation, and class inclusion of length via feedback to their judgments. Feedback was found to facilitate the learning of all three concepts. (ST)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Feedback, Intellectual Development
Effects of Systematic Conceptual Learning on the Intellectual Development of Preschool Children from Poverty Backgrounds: A Follow-up Study
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Jacobson, Leonard I.; Greeson, Larry E. – Child Development, 1972
In the follow-up study, most of the initial gains in IQ resulting from program participation were retained. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Followup Studies
The Modification of Intelligence by Training in the Verbalization of Word Definitions and Simple Concepts
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Levinson, Elizabeth J. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Control Groups, Definitions, Intellectual Development
Effects of Age, Sex, Systematic Conceptual Learning, Acquisition of Learning Sets, and Programmed Social Interaction on the Intellectual and Conceptual Development of Preschool Children from Poverty Backgrounds
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Jacobson, Leonard I.; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Economically Disadvantaged, Intellectual Development
Understanding of Mental Processes: A Developmental Study of "Remember" and "Forget."
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Wellman, Henry M.; Johnson, Carl N. – Child Development, 1979
Assesses comprehension of the mental verbs "remember" and "forget" among three-, four-, five-, and seven-year-old children by having the child judge whether or not toy characters in different situations remembered or forgot. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
Illness Is a Point of View: The Development of Children's Concepts of Illness
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Campbell, John D. – Child Development, 1975
Examines themes evident in children's and mother's definitions of illness to determine how views of illness develop. Subjects were 264 children (ages 6 to 12-11) and their mothers. Two issues were considered: (a) patterned similarity in illness definitions, and (b) developmental changes in illness concepts. (ED)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Front, Back, and Side: Stages of Acquisition. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 8.
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Kuczaj, Stan A., II; Maratsos, Michael P. – Child Development, 1974
The concepts of front, back, and side may be easily understood in relation to an intrinsically fronted item, but with a nonfronted object they depend on situational or psychological cues. A study investigated a child's awareness of the front, back, and side of his own body and of fronted and nonfronted objects. Researchers hypothesized that a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Conceptions of Ability and Intelligence.
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Nicholls, John N.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Explores age differences (6 to 22 years of age) in conceptions about the nature of the skills required by verbal and nonverbal (abstract) intelligence tests. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation