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Russell, James A.; Paris, Faye A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1994
Two studies examined children's concept acquisition for complex emotions. Four- to seven-year olds described situations that evoke a variety of emotions and their feelings about each; four- and five-year olds rated the same emotions for feelings of pleasure and arousal. Combined results suggest children attain partial conceptualization of each…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Emotional Development
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Matsuda, Fumiko – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1994
Clarified the developmental processes of awareness of relationships between duration, distance, and speed relative to linear movement. Children began with near awareness of the direct relationships between duration and distance and distance and speed. However, correct grasp of these direct relationships seemed to strengthen an incorrect grasp of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Distance
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Freeland, Claire A. B.; Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1987
Children's memory for stories was examined as a function of subjects' understanding of causal reasoning ability in stories. Results supported a developmental view in which recall performance was a complex interaction between characteristics of the learner and characteristics of the story. (Author/PCB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Kindergarten Children, Listening Comprehension
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Picard, Delphine; Vinter, Annie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
We investigated the nature of graphic formulas in 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old children when they were asked to draw a house and a television in a free condition, and then to draw from photographs of these objects. Assuming that the frequency of occurrence of a feature in children's drawings reflects its semantic weight, we studied the relations between…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art, Semantics, Geometric Concepts
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Bird, J. Elisabeth; Thompson, G. Brian – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
Three studies examined three-, five-, and seven-year-old children's understandng of verbal terms ("easy" and "hard") concerning personal competence. Studies focused on developmental change in understanding the terms and were designed to provide information about the order in which understanding of the terms was acquired. (HOD)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Comprehension