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Cocking, Rodney R. – Child Study Journal, 1977
This study examined the differential effects on a learning task of two different types of comprehension measures. (SB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Language Acquisition, Observational Learning

Denney, Nancy Wadsworth; Acito, Marlene A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Preschool children who did not group a set of geometric stimuli according to complete similarity on a pretest were taught classification wither in a modeling or in a reinforcement condition. Modeling was found to be an effective means of teaching classification behavior. (ST)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
Leifer, Aimee Dorr – 1975
This study investigated the influence of structured children's television programming on prosocial behavior. Subjects were 53 children ages 4-6, from two day care centers. Nine videotapes were produced (three for each of three experimental conditions) differing in their presentation of socially-valued behavior, socially-devalued behavior,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Television, Observational Learning, Preschool Children
Solter, Aletha; Mayer, Richard E. – 1977
These experiments tested the hypothesis that an instructional strategy involving guided discovery will promote meaningful learning of problem solving concepts by activating an assimilative set during learning. In order to investigate the effect of discovery training and concrete manipulation, preschool children were given training in one to one…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Learning, Memory, Number Concepts
Zimmerman, Barry J.; Rosenthal, Ted L. – 1973
The effects of modeling and corrective feedback on conceptual rule acquisition and retention were studied with a total of 48 3- and 4-year-old children. Equal numbers of children from each age group were randomly assigned to one of four training groups: modeling, corrective feedback, modeling and corrective feedback, and a no modeling/no…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Teaching, Day Care

Perez-Granados, Deanne R.; Callanan, Maureen A. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1997
Interviews with parents from 50 Mexican-descent families revealed that parents encouraged their preschool children to ask questions about science and causal relationships; older and younger siblings learned different skills from one another; and children learned through observation and imitation. Discusses issues of "match" between home…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences, Family School Relationship, Inquiry
Kansas Univ., Lawrence. Kansas Center for Research in Early Childhood Education. – 1972
This volume includes reports of five research projects of the Kansas Center for Research in Early Childhood Education: (1) Individual Differences in Newborn and Young Infants, including research with the Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale and laboratory studies of infant discriminative abilities; (2) Development of Social Competence, including…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation