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Brislawn, Ferdinand Leo, Jr. – 1971
To determine whether children possess representations and concepts of space before they acquire verbal descriptions of these, children's formation of symbolic representations of space and their acquisition of verbal referents for them were observed. It was found for subjects in the study that conceptual representations of space relations were…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation

Hargreaves, D. J. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
Presents the results of an investigation of age trends in the development of ideational fluency among 7-to-12 year-olds in which verbal, figural, and Draw-a-Man tests were administered to school children in five groups at 1-year intervals between the ages of 7 and 12. A 13-item reference list is included. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Lewis, Michael – 1975
This study examined the social labels which are first used by infants, social differentiation on the basis of labeling behavior, and overgeneralization of social labels. Subjects were 81 infants from 9 to 36 months of age. The 9- to 24-month-olds were shown slides of themselves, their mothers, their fathers, and unfamiliar children, babies, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Fathers, Infants

Woolum, Sandra J. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1976
In order to test the hypothesis that the ability to form verbal concepts would increase with age, a test for verbal concept formation was developed and administered to 668 children between the ages of 4 and 9. By varying sentences that describe nonsense figures, 4 variables were systematically explored. (MS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
Menig-Peterson, Carole L.; McCabe, Allyssa – 1977
This analysis of the structure of children's narratives deals with material gathered from 96 children, aged 3 1/2 to 9 1/2 years, in conversations about events in which they were personally involved. Elements of the narratives and the structural relationship of these elements are examined. Three elements are discerned: (1) chronological…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Narration

Samuelson, Larissa K.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognition, 1999
Two experiments examined toddlers' noun vocabularies and interpretations of names for solid and non-solid items. Results indicated that one side of the solidity-syntax-category organization mapping was favored. Seventeen- to 33-month olds do not systematically generalize names for solid things by shape similarity until they already know many…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Classification
Quasthoff, Uta M. – 1983
Discourse and conversational analysis methods were used in a qualitative reconstruction of one aspect of the regularities in the way 61 children "do" personal reference. Of particular interest was the development of two reference forms: minimization--preference for simple (one word) forms, or recipient design--reference forms indicating…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages

Becker, Judith A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Explores the underlying knowledge that children have about the relationship between the structure of requests and the relative status of speakers and listeners. Shows that the three age groups (preschoolers, 5-year-olds, and 10-year-olds) could systematically differentiate the requests by means of syntactic directness or semantics. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development
Williams, Charlotte L.; Tillman, M. H. – 1968
The effects of age and intelligence levels upon word associations were studied in 96 intellectually retarded, normal, and superior children with IQ's of 65 to 80, 91 to 110, and 117 to 158 respectively. A word association and a word usage task (reliability coefficients of .91 and .98) called for homogeneous responses to six form classes--count…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Adverbs, Age Differences
Gilbert, Lynn E.; Shipman, Virginia C. – 1972
The Preschool Inventory is the task in this battery most clearly associated with general cognitive development. It measures a range of verbal, quantitative, and perceptual-motor skills. The Inventory was first developed as a general achievement measure for Head Start children. The 1970 edition of the Inventory contains 64 items in four areas:…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth