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O'Reilly, Anne Watson – Child Development, 1995
Two studies examined the progress in normally developing preschoolers' ability to produce actions with imagined objects (pantomimes). Found that young children not only had difficulty producing imaginary object representations in contrast to normal adults, they also had difficulty comprehending imaginary object representations and were better at…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Body Language, Cognitive Development
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Steiner, Gerhard – Child Development, 1974
Piaget's concept of "internalization" is analyzed and related to Bruner's representational theories of cognitive development. Cognitive structures are shown to be real exclusively in an actual representation. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
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Goodwyn, Susan W.; Acredolo, Linda P. – Child Development, 1993
Infants were exposed to symbolic gestures from their parents beginning at 11 months of age. In bimonthly interviews, mothers reported their infants' use of gestures and words. Results indicated a smaller but reliable difference between the onset of infants' use of symbolic gesture and the onset of their use of words than earlier research…
Descriptors: Body Language, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Infants
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Troseth, Georgene L.; DeLoache, Judy S. – Child Development, 1998
Examined whether toddlers would use information presented through video to solve a retrieval problem. Found that 2.5-year-olds were very successful at finding a hidden toy based on viewing a televised hiding event, but 2-year-olds were not. Substantially better performance was achieved by other 2-year-olds who either watched or believed they were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Radin, Norma – 1968
In an early education program, 100 disadvantaged 4-year-olds (50 Negroes and 50 whites) attend classes one-half day, four days a week, from October through June. A teacher visits each child's home every other week to conduct a tutorial session lasting 1 1/2 hours. Three objectives of the program are (1) to develop a preschool curriculum based on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Home Visits