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Marschark, Marc – Child Development, 1977
This study demonstrated that 3- and 4-year-old children could locate the next biggest member of a series when they were first directed to locate a terminal member of the array. (SB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Youniss, James; Dennison, Ann – Child Development, 1971
Study attempted to specify two complementary aspects of children's inferential size judgments within the context of Piaget's theory. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Logical Thinking
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Starkey, David – Child Development, 1981
Examines the issue of object sorting in early infancy. Forty-eight infants at 6, 9, and 12 months were presented with eight sets of small, manipulable objects. At six months, selective manipulation was absent; at nine months, 94 percent of the infants sequentially touched similar objects and at 12 months 100 percent did so. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Friedman, William J.; And Others – Child Development, 1995
Examined developmental changes in the use of distance-based and calendar-based approaches to estimate the recency of two events. Found that children's ability to discriminate temporal relationships between two events appears by four to five years of age. In contrast, use of calendar information and cognizance of annual patterns was found only in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Cues
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Little, Audrey – Child Development, 1972
Results indicate that within the limitations of this study there is evidence that children with superior" intelligence showed more mature response patterns on Piaget-type tasks than children of the same age with average" intelligence test scores. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Intelligence Differences