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Peer reviewedWhite, Burton L. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Describes an experiment undertaken to identify the home experiences of 1- to 3-year-old children which result in competence at the age of 6. (BRT)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Competence
Peer reviewedWachs, Theodore D. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1976
Illustrates the use of a Piagetian-influenced research strategy in overcoming existing methodological problems in human experience research and presents illustrative data on human early experience research which has so far yielded inconsistent data. (GO)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience
Peer reviewedByrnes, James P. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Delineates the current consensus regarding the nature and the development of intellectual ability. Examines when one would expect general abilities to moderate the relationship among domain-specific and other processes. Reviews recent studies in which general abilities were used as independent variables or covariates. Suggests that generally,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
Peer reviewedJenkins, Jennifer M.; Astington, Janet Wilde – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000
Tested competing causal models concerning the relationship between children's social behaviors and theory of mind in 3- and 4-year-olds tested 3 times over 7 months. Found that false belief performance predicted joint planning and role assignment during pretend play, after taking into account initial performance on joint planning and role…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Causal Models, Children, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedOlson, Sheryl L.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1992
Examined the association between early caregiving and children's cognitive competence at school age. Mother-child interactions were measured when children were 6, 13, and 24 months and 6 years of age. Children's cognitive competence was assessed at 6 and 8 years of age. Mothers' nonrestrictiveness and verbal stimulation were significant predictors…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedLapsley, Daniel K.; Quintana, Stephen M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1989
Used a data analytic strategy that was novel to the M-space literature to examine the mental capacity prerequisites of social-cognitive development of 99 students in grades one, three, and five. Used a structural equations analysis to determine whether M-power was a significant predictor of role-taking development. (RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Peer reviewedKlemchuk, Helen P.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1990
A total of 86 girls of 2 to 6 years completed Level 1 spatial and affective perspective-taking tasks. Results showed increasingly accurate performance with age. Task intercorrelations and factor analyses provided support for the coherence of the Level 1 perspective-taking construct. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Cognitive Development, Construct Validity
