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| Developmental Psychology | 1 |
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| Billow, Richard M. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedBillow, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Metaphors of similarity and proportionality, together with a pictorial form of similarity metaphors, proverbs, and several Piaget-type cognitive tasks, were given to 50 boys aged 5 through 13 years. Results indicated that metaphor comprehension is a type of classificatory behavior, the development of which is related to maturing cognitive…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
