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Phillipson, Sivanes – Educational Psychology, 2009
Vygotsky speculated that parents play an important role in the intellectual development of their children, and that this role includes the transfer of expectations related to their children's academic achievement. Consequently, different parents can produce different contexts of academic achievement for their children. The participants were 215…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Parent Aspiration, Elementary School Students
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Belmont, J. M.; Butterfield, E. C. – Human Development, 1971
Development of memory depends upon changes in several mnemonic processes, which are illustrated in experiments with normal and mentally retarded adults and children. (Author/WY)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Child Development, Intellectual Development
Omanson, Richard C., And Others – 1978
The relationship between retention of story propositions and inferences was studied in two experiments on groups of children who averaged five and eight years in age. In the first experiment, the motives and theme of protagonists were varied and found to affect the number and kind of inferences made by eight-year-olds. The increase in the number…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Educational Research
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Okamoto, Yukari; Curtis, Reagan; Jabagchourian, John J.; Weckbacher, Lisa Marie – High Ability Studies, 2006
Two studies were conducted to explore mathematical precocity in young children. Study 1 examined mathematically gifted first and third graders' working memory development. The results showed that mathematically gifted children's working memory growth was similar to that expected of their age peers. Study 2 examined changes in mathematically gifted…
Descriptors: Young Children, Intellectual Development, Gifted, Memory
Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA. – 1972
The proceedings of the University Affiliated Program's Second Special Interdisciplinary Seminar, concerning Piagetian theory, are presented. The opening session dealt with the question "Can Piaget's Theory Provide a Better Psychometry?", C. E. Meyers, speaker. Among the papers reprinted in the proceedings from the afternoon program of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation