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Peer reviewedAckermann, Edith K. – Learning and Instruction, 1998
Offers a commentary on five contributions to recent developments in the study of cognitive development that have been selected for this special issue. The relevance of each author's paper to issues that are central to cognitivists today and post-Piagetian developmental psychologists is discussed, and the overall need of evolutionary models to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
Peer reviewedDoise, Willem; Hanselmann, Claude – Learning and Instruction, 1991
To illustrate the joint intervention of sociocognitive conflict and social marking in cognitive processes, 160 children (87 males and 73 females) in Geneva (Switzerland), with an average age of 6.5 years completed conservation of number and conservation of liquids tasks. Conflict and social marking are important in the acquisition of operational…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Research, Cognitive Development, Conflict
