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Banerjee, Konika; Kominsky, Jonathan F.; Fernando, Madhawee; Keil, Frank C. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Across 3 experiments, we found evidence that information about who owns an artifact influenced 5- to 10-year-old children's and adults' judgments about that artifact's primary function. Children's and adults' use of ownership information was underpinned by their inference that owners are typically familiar with owned artifacts and are therefore…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Ownership, Information Utilization
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Robinson, E. J.; Mitchell, P. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1990
Reports on five experiments regarding the ability of children ranging from four to seven years of age to decide when they did not have enough information to select an unfamiliar named picture. Concludes that avoidance of the undecidable was the result of the children's difficulty in understanding undecidability. (GH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Evaluative Thinking
Derevensky, Jeffrey – 1975
Sixty kindergarten, 60 second-grade, and 60 fourth-grade students performed several memory tasks under one of six conditions. The conditions differed as to the method of presentation of information. The study was focused on developmental changes in children's use of verbal, nonverbal, and spatial-positional cues for memory. The results, in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cues, Elementary School Students, Information Utilization
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Turner, Irene F.; Bentley, Grace – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1982
Social-matching problems were verbally presented to children either with or without concrete models. In each condition, information was provided which was sufficient, superfluous, or irrelevant. Problems containing only irrelevant information were the most difficult, although models enhanced the performance of younger children but depressed the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Bartsch, Karen; London, Kamala – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Examined whether and when children use information about others' mental states to invent or select persuasive strategies in three studies. Found older children, but not preschoolers, used belief information in stories to select arguments; and kindergartners' and first-graders' reasoning on false belief tasks suggested the failure to consider…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Odom, Richard D.; And Others – 1974
This paper presents a study which indicates that accurate performance on a simple conservation task need not be related to congnitive maturity. Twenty adults and 20 third graders were given three verbal problems, each requiring a same-different judgment and an explanation of that judgment. Only 3 adults were able to give correct judgments, while…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Harmon, Lenore W., Ed.; And Others – 1983
This compilation of three papers investigates theoretical and practical facets of career development, focusing on cognitive theory and decision-making theory and their roles in the formation of computerized career development systems. In the first paper ("Cognitive-Behavioral Theory and Its Application to Career Development"), Gerald…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development
Peet, Susan H. – 1994
This study explored the way parents use information sources for information about their child's motor, social, and cognitive development. This study sought to identify: (1) variations in parental use of information based on the domain of the child's development for which the parent sought information; (2) the role of parent and child gender in…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development
Petracek, Svatopluk, Ed.; Zlochova, Irina – 1983
A report is given of an international colloquy which offered the opportunity for representatives of 11 European countries to exchange views and experiences on further education and self-education of teachers. Discussions centered around five areas: (1) the science of education as a means of raising the effectiveness of the educational process and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Faculty Development
Van de Riet, Vernon; Resnick, Michael B. – 1972
This report describes and evaluates a sequential Learning to Learn Program (L.L.P.) for four- and five-year-old children. The long-term plan was for these children to be kept in a continuous sequential program through the first grade. Since another aspect of this project is a systematic attempt to learn how differing lengths of exposure to the…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged
Berkowitz, Bob; Berkowitz, Joyce – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Presents a model of instruction in which media specialists, in cooperation with teachers, go beyond teaching library skills and work with students to develop critical thinking and information use skills. (CLB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Utilization
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Lee, Kang; Eskritt, Michelle; Symons, Lawrence A.; Muir, Darwin – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Five experiments examined children's use of eye gaze information for inferring another person's desire. Found that 4-year olds used another's eye direction to infer desires, while 3-year olds could use other nonverbal cues. Two- and 3-year olds used eye gaze for desire inference when presented dynamically with other scaffolding cues. When…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Development, Cross Sectional Studies
Brown, Edward K. – 1971
Low achieving, low socioeconomic students, because of a multiplicity of little-understood background factors, seem to fail not because of an initial lack of motivation to learn, but because basic learning processes taught them by their own communities are not contiguous with those required for academic success. The study attempts to determine if…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Gillespie, Marilyn K. – 2002
Research findings related to constructivism have been applied to development of the Equipped for the Future (EFF) Framework and Continuum of Performance, a multi-dimensional developmental description of performance serving as a foundation for EFF-based instruction and assessment of learner progress. Acquiring expertise is a complex developmental…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes