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A Biased Test of the Encoding Shift Hypothesis.
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Bisanz, Jeffrey; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
A recognition memory experiment with 8-, 11- and 20-year-olds investigated the hypothesis that, with age, semantic encoding becomes increasingly important relative to acoustic encoding. (CM)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comprehension
Still More about the Comprehension of 'Less'
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Palermo, David S. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Examines whether the use of weight or linear array comparisons provide a contextual cue which facilitates the comprehension of the comparative terms "more" and "less". (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cues, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
The Effect of Riddle Structure on Children's Comprehension of Riddles.
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Yalisove, Daniel – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Investigates the development sequence of children's comprehension of riddles. In Study I riddles and jokes were collected and classified from children of grades 1 through 10. In Study II, students of grades 1, 3, 6, 10, and college were given selected riddles from three categories determined in Study I to test the predicted comprehension sequence.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comprehension, Developmental Stages
Development of the Appreciation of Verbal Jokes
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Shultz, Thomas R.; Horibe, Francis – Developmental Psychology, 1974
A study of the development of 6- to 12-year-old children's appreciation of verbal jokes was conducted within the framework of the incongruity and resolution theory of humor. Results revealed age differences indicating that older children appreciated both structural components while younger children appreciated the incongruity structure. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Number Conservation in Children below Age Six: Its Relationship to Age, Perceptual Dimensions, and Language Comprehension
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LaPointe, Karen; O'Donnell, James P. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
The influence of perceptual factors and language comprehension on quantity judgments (number conservation) was assessed in children, aged 2-5. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Conservation (Concept)
Development of Children's Understanding of the Multiple Determination Underlying Human Behavior.
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Erwin, Joan; Kuhn, Deanna – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Studies the development of children's understanding of the multiple determination underlying human behavior. Subjects were kindergarten children, fourth, eighth, and twelfth graders. (CM)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Children, Cognitive Ability, Comprehension
Children's Developing Understanding of Other People's Motives for Behavior.
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Wood, Margaret E. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Childrens' understanding of motives for behavior was investigated by showing interpersonal situations on silent films to 6- to 14-year-old children from middle- and working-class backgrounds. (CM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Comprehension, Foreign Countries
A Cognitive Developmental Study of Metaphor Comprehension
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Billow, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Metaphors of similarity and proportionality, together with a pictorial form of similarity metaphors, proverbs, and several Piaget-type cognitive tasks, were given to 50 boys aged 5 through 13 years. Results indicated that metaphor comprehension is a type of classificatory behavior, the development of which is related to maturing cognitive…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Developmental Differences in the Use of Distinctiveness, Consensus, and Consistency Information for Making Causal Attributions.
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DiVitto, Barbara; McArthur, Leslie Zebrowitz – Developmental Psychology, 1978
This study examines developmental differences in third and sixth graders' and college students' use of distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency information for making causal attributions. (CM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, College Students, Comprehension
Development of Time, Speed, and Distance Concepts.
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Siegler, Robert S.; Richards, D. Dean – Developmental Psychology, 1979
The rule assessment approach was used to examine five-, eight-, eleven-, and twenty-year-olds' concepts of time, speed, and distance. (CM)
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Decision Making