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Peer reviewedMiscione, John L.; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Fundamental Concepts, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedWellman, Henry M. – Child Development, 1977
Three-, four- and five-year-old children were presented an array of metamemory tasks designed to test their understanding of variables which affect the difficulty of memory performance. (JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Memorization
Peer reviewedZeskind, Philip Sanford; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1978
Infants from low socioeconomic status families were randomly assigned to either an instructional day care program designed to prevent socioculturally caused mental retardation or to a nonintervention control group. The effects of these environments were then compared for fetally malnourished infants in terms of later intellectual functioning and…
Descriptors: Day Care, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intervention
Peer reviewedGrotevant, Harold D.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Presents a study of a theoretical confluence model which predicts the effects of birth order, child spacing and family size on intellectual development. The fit of this model was tested on samples of families with biological and adopted children. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Comparative Analysis, Family Structure, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedWhite, Edward; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Kindergarten through fourth graders (N=170) were tested for conservation and then interviewed following the presentation of a story about an elderly woman's death, in an attempt to assess children's understanding of 3 concepts: irrevocability, cessation of bodily processes, and universality. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Conceptual Schemes, Conservation (Concept)
Peer reviewedMiller, Patricia H.; Bigi, Linda – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedAtkin, Robert; And Others – Child Development, 1977
A multivariate modification of the cross-lagged panel correlation paradigm was applied to data from 4 subgroups of students tested and retested in fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh grades on 16 essentially identical cognitive measures. Results suggested that the test of aural comprehension was tapping the causal factors involved in intellectual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedParis, Scott G.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Children's ability to infer consequences from sentences automatically was assessed in two cued recall experiments. Seven- and eight-year-old children and adults served as subjects. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Comprehension
Peer reviewedTaub, Harvey B.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
The comparative value of various parameters of neonatal prematurity for differentiating intellective, scholastic, and social functioning in middle childhood was assessed for a sample of 38 prematurely born and 26 maturely born subjects aged 7 to 9.5 years. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Intellectual Development, Predictive Validity
Peer reviewedMalgady, Robert G. – Child Development, 1977
Presents a developmental study of children's understanding and appreciation of figurative language. Results replicated previous findings that kindergarten children are capable of interpreting figurative language whereas appreciation appears to require increased cognitive sophistication. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Peer reviewedKuhn, Deanna; Phelps, Henry – Child Development, 1976
The development of children's comprehension of cause and effect relationships was studied in 68 kindergarten, first grade, and second grade children. (BRT)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Peer reviewedMednick, Birgitte R. – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedJacobson, Leonard I.; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Economically Disadvantaged, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedBeckwith, Leila – Child Development, 1971
The present study explores the specific environmental influences in the intellectual development of 24 adoptive infants living in middle class families. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Analysis, Environmental Influences, Infants
