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Geary, David C. – Educational Psychologist, 2008
Schools are a central interface between evolution and culture. They are the contexts in which children learn the evolutionarily novel abilities and knowledge needed to function as adults in modern societies. Evolutionary educational psychology is the study of how an evolved bias in children's learning and motivational systems influences their…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Learning Motivation, Evolution, Bias
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Jarvik, Ussy F. – American Psychologist, 1975
Reflections on psychological perspectives of aging are focused around issues of biological changes and mental functioning, genetic factors in aging, psychological changes with aging, individual differences in mental functioning and the intellectual decline of the aged. (EH)
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Genetics
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Piaget, Jean – Urban Review, 1975
Shows that one of the most general processes in the development of cognitive structures consists in replacing exogenous knowledge by endogenous reconstructions that reconstitute the same forms but incorporate them into systems whose internal composition is a pre-requisite. Biologically equivalent process is discussed. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology
Zigler, Edward – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Environmental Influences
McCune-Nicolich, Lorraine – 1983
Despite considerable work concerning relationships between cognition and language in the second year of life, these relationships remain obscure. Clarification depends on resolution in at least three major areas. First, studies should be expanded beyond the scope of cognitive prerequisite models that have been difficult to conceptualize and that…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cross Sectional Studies
Meadows, Sara – 1993
This volume provides an informed and accessible overview of the whole area of children's thinking. The book reviews children's thinking in detail by discussing the ways children remember and organize information in general; the acquisition of skills such as reading, writing, and arithmetic; and the development of more complex reasoning as children…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
Gagne, Raymond C. – 1980
Described is a curriculum theory and construction within an epistemological model whose specific purpose is to serve as a general guide to the Amerindian peoples (Indians and Inuit) in their search for solutions to the problem of cultural survival. The model is also meant to have universal application, especially where there are cultures in…
Descriptors: American Indians, Biological Influences, Biology, Canada Natives
Harris, Lauren Jay – 1975
Sex differences in cerebral organization and functioning, and the apparent superiority of males in spatial ability are examined in this paper. Attention is given to several kinds of cognitive and perceptual tasks in which sex differences in spatial ability have been shown to exist; among these are tasks involving: (1) recall and detection of…
Descriptors: Adults, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 2000
This report provides an overview of the scientific missions, research and research training funding trends, strategic planning initiatives, and research highlights for each Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDBB) research program for the years 1995-1999. CDBB develops scientific initiatives and supports research and research training relevant…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Biological Influences, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Kimura, Doreen – 1999
This book describes the major differences between men and women in cognitive or problem-solving abilities and discusses the possible biological contributions to such differences. The book argues that sex differences in cognitive patterns and in motor skills arose out of complementary evolutionary histories of men and women and that evidence for…
Descriptors: Adults, Biological Influences, Brain, Cognitive Development