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Peer reviewedThomas, Hoben; Jamison, Wesley – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Reports on three studies which investigated the development of the concept of horizontality in subjects from nursey school through college age. Normative data collected allowed for evaluation of Piaget's stages and for differences due to age, sex, and apparatus shape and orientation. (ED)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students, Developmental Tasks
Peer reviewedChapman, Robert H. – Child Development, 1975
Children in grades 1, 3, and 5 and college students were given a variety of judgment tasks contrasting the comparison of quantity with the comparison of proportions to determine whether the understanding of proportions develops before formal operations. Results indicated that the comprehension of abstract relations requires formal operations.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, College Students, Concept Formation
