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Resnick, Lauren B.; Wang, Margaret C. – 1969
This paper describes a program of research in the application of scalogram analysis to the validation of learning hierarchies, together with the development of an alternative method for assessing hierarchical relationships among tests of instructional objectives. The relationship between scalability of tests and positive transfer between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Componential Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Learning Processes
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Siegler, R. S. – Human Development, 1980
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis
McDonald, Geraldine – 1976
The idea of semantic features has taken some force within psychology and a number of research workers have suggested that semantic acquisition is, in some manner, determined by semantic components. This notion has come to be called the "semantic feature hypothesis". An examination of the semantic feature hypothesis was made by testing 80…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky; Wing, Clara S. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Examines how speakers and listeners make judgments on the relationship and truth of propositions connected by subordinating conjunctions. (EKN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Componential Analysis, Conjunctions, Error Analysis (Language)
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Haviland, Susan E.; Clark, Eve V. – Journal of Child Language, 1972
This study of the acquisition of kinship terms in English is a test of the hypothesis that lexical items are learned in their order of complexity and of the validity of relational analysis in predicting the order of the acquisition of kinship terms. Earlier studies of kinship terms, Piaget's in particular, are first discussed, as well as the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis