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Roark, Casey L.; Lescht, Erica; Hampton Wray, Amanda; Chandrasekaran, Bharath – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Categories are fundamental to everyday life and the ability to learn new categories is relevant across the lifespan. Categories are ubiquitous across modalities, supporting complex processes such as object recognition and speech perception. Prior work has proposed that different categories may engage learning systems with unique developmental…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Adults, Learning Modalities
Counsell, Shelly L.; Hyerle, David – Teachers College Press, 2023
"What" and "how" young children are thinking are typically expressed and shared at home and school through verbal and written modes of communication. As a visual language framework conceived and developed by David Hyerle, Thinking MapsĀ® offers an additional way for learners to represent their ideas by visually mapping their…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Evidence Based Practice, Metacognition
Waters, Gillian M.; Beck, Sarah R. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
In two experiments, we investigated whether 4- to 5-year-old children's ability to demonstrate their understanding of aspectuality was influenced by how the test question was phrased. In Experiment 1, 60 children chose whether to look or feel to gain information about a hidden object (identifiable by sight or touch). Test questions referred either…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Spatial Ability, Perception
Lehman, Elyse Brauch; Hanzel, Sharron Hurtt – 1980
In order to determine whether there are developmental differences in the handling of the modality attribute 32 children from each of grades two and six and 32 college students were presented with a video-taped mixed-modality list of 32 first grade words. Subjects were asked to recall the words, to identify the presentation modality of each word on…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students

Hresko, Wayne P.; Reid, D. Kim – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1981
The label "cognitive" has been used to designate five substantially different approaches to the study of learning disabilities: information processing, metacognition, genetic epistemology, cognitive behavior modification, and the specific abilities model. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education

Gurney, Penelope J. – McGill Journal of Education, 1998
Examines one aspect of the cognitive development of preservice education students, the ability to utilize different modes of mental representation. Finds associations between the level of mathematics experience and both the ability to utilize three different modes of mental representation (enactive, visual, and verbal) and the overall use of…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Corsale, Kathleen – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether children as young as second-graders could encode categorically within an abstract evaluative dimension. The study uses mode of stimulus presentation (auditory or visual) as an independent variable. The subjects were 40 white middle class children from grades 2, 4, and 6, who were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Learning Preferences and Cognitive Style: Some Implications for Continuing Professional Development.

Sadler-Smith, Eugene; Allinson, Christopher W.; Hayes, John – Management Learning, 2000
Cognitive style is one factor that may influence individuals' preferences for different learning methods and activities related to continuous professional development. Explores the cognitive styles and learning preferences of personnel practitioners (n=127) in the United Kingdom. Finds that the relationship between cognitive style and preference…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Means, Barbara M.; Rohwer, William D., Jr. – 1976
To assess the importance of visual attributes relative to acoustic and semantic attributes in children's encoding, a 64-item recognition test was administered to first- and sixth-grade children. Recognition items were linedrawings of simple objects accompanied by aural labels. By manipulating the picture, label, and referent in various…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes

Lawrenz, Frances; Lawson, Anton E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1986
Presents study findings which explored the effect of teacher reasoning level and teaching style preference on improvement in student-reasoning ability. Reports that students of concrete operational teachers and of inquiry teachers showed greater gains in reasoning ability than students of formal operational teachers and of expository teachers. (ML)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education
Caudill, Gil – Technology Connection, 1998
Outlines three basic learning modalities--auditory, visual, and tactile--and notes that technology can help incorporate multiple modalities within each lesson, to meet the needs of most students. Discusses the importance in multiple modality teaching of effectively assessing students. Presents visual, auditory and tactile activity suggestions.…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction

Iakimanskaia, I. S. – Russian Education and Society, 1995
Presents an interesting example of Russian pedagogical thought. Personality-oriented instruction generally refers to cognitive style. Attempts a broad classification of objectives and procedures for this type of instruction. Includes many references and terminology from Russian pedagogy (for example, psychodidactics, social-pedagogical model,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Educational Development

Jimenez, Andres E., Comp. – 1976
The articles in the collection discuss the theory and practice of seven Educational Sciences. These are the basic elements of a conceptual framework for the education profession proposed by Joseph E. Hill in the belief that if educators are to establish mutual understandings of educational problems and phenomena, a unifying conceptual framework…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Anthologies, Behavioral Sciences, Biological Sciences