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Siegel, Linda S. – 1971
The development of the concept of seriation was studied for 415 children, ranging in age from 3 to 9 years. The subjects were required to learn to identify the larger or smaller object in a two stimulus series, the smallest or middle-sized object in a three stimulus series, and the largest or next to the smallest in a four stimulus series. The end…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Cognitive Development

Starkey, David – Child Development, 1981
Examines the issue of object sorting in early infancy. Forty-eight infants at 6, 9, and 12 months were presented with eight sets of small, manipulable objects. At six months, selective manipulation was absent; at nine months, 94 percent of the infants sequentially touched similar objects and at 12 months 100 percent did so. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Hooper, Frank H.; Sipple, Thomas S. – 1975
Matrix tasks to assess multiple classifications and multiple seriation skills were administered to 160 children (40 Ss each from preschool, kindergarten, first and second grade levels). Each child received six matrix subtasks (reproduction and transportation of cross classification I, double seriation, and cross classification II) in one of six…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation

Friedman, William J.; And Others – Child Development, 1995
Examined developmental changes in the use of distance-based and calendar-based approaches to estimate the recency of two events. Found that children's ability to discriminate temporal relationships between two events appears by four to five years of age. In contrast, use of calendar information and cognizance of annual patterns was found only in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Cues
Friedman, William J. – 1979
This study investigated (1) the order of acquisition of related temporal and spatial terms, (2) the application of temporal and spatial terms and (3) the relationship between the application of temporal and spatial terms and performance on cognitive measures of temporal and spatial ordering. Children 3 to 5 years of age were tested on four…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation
DeLoache, Judy S.; And Others – 1981
A seriation task (assembling a set of nesting cups) was used in this study to examine developmental changes in young children's ability to restructure a situation. Forty young children, eight each at 18, 24, 30, 36, and 40 months of age, participated in the study. Each child was presented with five nesting cups and was told he or she could play…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Cooper, Robert G., Jr.; And Others – 1977
The relationships among the perception, representation, and construction of series are examined within a model of the acquisition of seriation abilities. The model is then related to two experiments with three-, four- and five-year-olds. The key feature of the model is the delineation of parallels among developmental changes in three arenas:…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning
McCartney, Kathleen A. – 1980
This study focused on the issue of whether "scripts" guide children's comprehension and recall of stories. Two groups of kindergarten and second-grade children (N=48) from middle class elementary school districts were told two stories about typical events in the life of a young child (eating dinner and going to bed). Children were asked to recall…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Transitive Inferences within Seriation Problems Assessed by Explanations, Judgments, and Strategies.
Moore, Gary W. – 1978
A study was designed to develop an instrument and methodological procedure to assess transitive relations within seriation problems in elementary school children using three criteria: explanations, judgments, and strategies. A secondary analysis to assess transitivity used the three criteria according to whether the children were conservers, in…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation