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Peer reviewedKavanaugh, Robert, D.; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Studied children's grasp of make-believe transformations they had seen enacted. Children indicated the pretend outcome by choosing a picture depicting no change or a picture depicting the pretend change. Older children chose correctly, even with the addition of a picture of an irrelevant transformation, but younger children did not. Autistic…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Autism, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedHerman, James F.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Second and third graders and fifth and sixth graders were tested in a very large, unfamiliar environment to determine the relation of their knowledge of an abstract reference frame to performance on a spatial inference task. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Download full textFlavell, John H.; And Others – 1976
This paper describes two experiments in which children in grades 1, 3, and 5 were given three kinds of spatial perspective-taking problems to solve as quickly as they could: (1) C problems, solvable only by computation (that is, noting which features of a particular object array were closest to another observer in order to estimate how the array…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Bowd, Alan D. – 1975
This paper presents a study which investigated the relationship between field-dependence, perceptual egocentrism, and inductive reasoning in 53 kindergarten children. The general objective of the study was to assess the validity of the field-dependence measures in early childhood. Field-dependence was found to relate positively with perceptual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Egocentrism, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedLamborn, Susie D. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
A 10-step scale for assessing development of understanding relationships between honesty and kindness was developed and administered to 113 youths. Results indicated that development moved through 3 stages, as youths age 9-12 demonstrated abstract concepts of honesty and kindness; age 13-15 demonstrated simple abstract relations; and age 16-20…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Altruism, Children
Hess-Behrens, Betsy Nan – 1973
This study attempts to reinforce developmental theory concerning spatial Comprehension by building on the qualitative observations of art educators of the past, and by strengthening the empirical basis of contemporary investigations into the relationship between pictorial representations, intellectual maturity, and environmental stimulation.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Denne, Joan M. – 1975
A class of preschoolers, aged 44-63 months and grouped according to age, sex, sibling position, family size and the occupation of each parent, were the subjects of a 2-part study to examine preschoolers' perceptions of mothers. In the first part of the study, each child was shown 4 sets of pictures depicting a variety of possible mother figures.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Child Language, Middle Aged Adults
