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Chapman, Robin S.; Kohn, Lawrence L. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1978
The study investigated preferences shown by 25 preschool children regarding the handier toy, the smaller toy, the more probable toy, the animate noun, and the first-mentioned noun as agent in interpreting semantically reversible sentences prior to adult performance. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Preschool Education
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Crockett, Bruce K.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Children were tested on the WPPSI and Stanford-Binet and after three years they were tested on the WISC. Results indicate that the WISC scores were significantly higher than the two other tests. The results of the various subtests of the three tests are compared and discussed. (SE)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrichment Activities
Hayslip, Bert, Jr.; Sterns, Harvey L. – 1975
One hundred and sixty-two subjects of three age levels were tested to examine the relationship between crystallized and fluid abilities and three problem solving tasks varying in the abstractness/concreteness of their stimuli and emphasis on past experience. These dimensions have been used by Davis to distinguish between Type "O" and Type "C"…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Intellectual Development
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Meyer, Pierre – Counseling Psychologist, 1977
This paper presents data to demonstrate that there is a construct of intellectual development, and that it can be measured cross-sectionally, through analysis of religious content. Three different studies, in which subjects responded to religious statements, are described. Paper presented at Chicago 1975 Convention of the American Psychological…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Processes, Ethics, Higher Education
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Becher, Rhoda M.; Wolfgang, Charles H. – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
This study explored the relationship between symbolic representation in dramatic play and art and cognitive and reading readiness levels of kindergarten children. Results indicated children at different cognitive levels performed significantly differently on the Metropolitan Reading Readiness Test and spent significantly different amounts of time…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Dramatic Play