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Change in Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence and Student Achievement: The Role of Intellectual Engagement
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Hülür, Gizem; Gasimova, Fidan; Robitzsch, Alexander; Wilhelm, Oliver – Child Development, 2018
Intellectual engagement (IE) refers to enjoyment of intellectual activities and is proposed as causal for knowledge acquisition. The role of IE for cognitive development was examined utilizing 2-year longitudinal data from 112 ninth graders (average baseline age: 14.7 years). Higher baseline IE predicted higher baseline crystallized ability but…
Descriptors: Intellectual Experience, Learner Engagement, Cognitive Development, Longitudinal Studies
What's in a Name? A Study of How Children Learn Common and Proper Names
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Katz, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
The Effect of Word Order on Young Children's Responses to Simple Questions and Commands
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Wetstone, Harriet S.; Friedlander, Bernard Z. – Child Development, 1973
The study investigated the communicative effectiveness of word order in preschoolers' comprehension of meaning using simple questions and commands in an at-home play context. (ST)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Teaching Parents a Strategy for Enhancing Infant Development.
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Metzl, Marilyn Newman – Child Development, 1980
Normal, first-born children of two-parent, self-supporting families (N=60) were divided into three groups at birth: control, mothers receiving a specific language stimulation program, and both parents receiving the program simultaneously. Infants whose parents received simultaneous training exhibited the greatest gain over 4 1/2 months in Bayley…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intervention
Investigations of the Meaning of "Different" in the Language of Young Children
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Webb, Roger A.; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Developmental Psychology
The Influences of Social Class and Race on Language Test Performance and Spontaneous Speech of Preschool Children
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Johnson, Dale L. – Child Development, 1974
Differences in language proficiency between social classes and races were studied to determine the effect of familiarity of the testing situation. Results showed no natural setting language differences. (ST)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Environmental Influences, Intellectual Development
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