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Classification: A Comparison of Middle and Old Age
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Denney, Nancy Wadsworth; Lennon, Madonna L. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Whereas middle-aged individuals tended to group the entire stimulus array into piles of similar items, the elderly individuals grouped very much as young children do--arranging only a portion of the stimulus array into elaborate designs. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cluster Grouping, Comparative Analysis
A Developmental Study of Free Classification in Children
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Denney, Nancy Wadsworth – Child Development, 1972
Study concerned with the effects of procedural differences on the classification of geometrical stimuli. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Classification, Cluster Grouping
Class Inclusion and Multiple Classification in Middle and Old Age
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Denney, Nancy Wadsworth; Cornelius, Steven W. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
This study examined the performance of middle aged and elderly adults on the Piagetian tests of class inclusion and multiple classification. (GO)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Ability
A Lifespan Study of Classification Preference.
Pearce, Kathy A.; Denney, Nancy Wadsworth – 1983
Previous research in classification preference has focused on only a few selected age groups. To investigate the classification preferences of individuals from early childhood through old age in the same study, 144 individuals between the ages of 4 and 70 completed a revised version of the Conceptual Styles Test. Analysis of results showed that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children