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Haim Mizrachi; Gil Maor – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
This article describes an empirical study that explored the cognitive and emotional effects of teaching through shadow theater as compared to traditional storytelling of the same texts and songs in children on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The rationale is based on broken mirror theory anchored in research on mirror neurons. Fifty-seven…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Elementary School Students, Self Management

Jackson, Joseph P. – Child Development, 1974
Children, aged 5, 8, and 11 years, were tested to assess the conformity of their developing symbolic gestural abilities to imagery processes. Results are discussed in terms of Piaget's conception of stages in imagery development. (ST)
Descriptors: Body Language, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Imagery

Robert, Michele – British Journal of Psychology, 1983
Assessed the authenticity of conservation attainment through an observational learning paradigm. First grade children (N=60) were exposed to either a peer or adult model who was either present or absent during a series of tasks. No correlation was found between social influence and observational acquisition of conservation. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Elementary School Students
LaVoie, Joseph C.; And Others – 1976
Children's self-control behavior in motor and cognitive tasks was examined in a series of two studies in which modeling and self-regulatory mechanisms were varied to assess the influence of each. In the first study, 6-, 7-, 9-, and 11-year-old children individually played a 20-trial game of 'Simon Says' (involving activation and inhibition trials)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Denney, Douglas R. – 1974
Three studies to determine the effects of adult models on interrogative strategies of children (ages 6-11) are reviewed. Two issues are analyzed: (1) the comparative effectiveness of various types of modeling procedures for changing rule-governed behaviors, and (2) the interaction between observational learning and the developmental level of the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
Uzgiris, Ina C. – 1977
This paper describes seven interrelated studies concerned with children's understanding of sequential actions and with the effects of observing a model on this understanding. A total of 546 elementary and secondary school students served as subjects for the studies. The tasks for all of the studies involved deriving the pattern for a sequence from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level