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Wakefield, Elizabeth M.; Foley, Alana E.; Ping, Raedy; Villarreal, Julia N.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Levine, Susan C. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Past research has shown that children's mental rotation skills are malleable and can be improved through action experience--physically rotating objects--or gesture experience--showing how objects could rotate (e.g., Frick, Ferrara, & Newcombe, 2013; Goldin-Meadow et al., 2012; Levine, Goldin-Meadow, Carlson, & Hemani-Lopez, 2018). These…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Nonverbal Communication, Motion
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Kaiser, Mary Kister; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines the development of intuitive theories of motion among college students and children between the ages of 4 and 12. School-aged children made more erroneous predictions on the path a ball takes upon exiting a curved tube than preschoolers, kindergarteners, and college students. Results related to the "growth error." (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, College Students, Elementary Education