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Peer reviewedLaPointe, Karen; O'Donnell, James P. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
The influence of perceptual factors and language comprehension on quantity judgments (number conservation) was assessed in children, aged 2-5. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Conservation (Concept)
Peer reviewedBillow, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Metaphors of similarity and proportionality, together with a pictorial form of similarity metaphors, proverbs, and several Piaget-type cognitive tasks, were given to 50 boys aged 5 through 13 years. Results indicated that metaphor comprehension is a type of classificatory behavior, the development of which is related to maturing cognitive…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Peer reviewedBerk, Laura E. – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Observes 75 first- and third-grade children in their classroom mathematics seatwork to test assumptions drawn from Vygotsky's theory about the development of private speech and its relationship to task performance, attention, and motor behaviors accompanying task orientation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
