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Peer reviewedDuckworth, Eleanor – Harvard Educational Review, 1972
The author believes that creativity and intelligence in children develop only minimally according to a built-in pace but depend mainly on having the opportunities to develop. (AN)
Descriptors: Child Development, Comprehension, Creative Thinking, Intellectual Development
Download full textAnastasiow, Nicholas – 1970
Research findings concerned with the relationship between the child's oral language behavior and learning to read are described. A cognitive-biological approach to the child's perceptual system development is taken, and data are presented to support both the developmental point of view of language development and the point of view that the child…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
Gulkus, Steven P. – 1977
The relationship between conceptual complexity and stimulus saliency was explored in a 3 x 4 factorial design using 144 undergraduates. Levels of complexity were represented by varying the ratio of relevant-to-irrelevant dimensions (1:3, 2:2, and 3:1). The saliency factor varied according to the discriminability between each attribute within…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning
Simpson, Greg – 1978
A study was conducted to test whether three, four, and five-year-old children would be better able to use either static or dynamic properties for grouping objects, and whether performance under these conditions would be better than when no property was given. One of the two study tasks, the free sort, also used by Rosch et al. (1976), asked…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Gotts, Edward Earl; And Others – 1975
The role of language in conservation tasks and the development of the concept of conservation of quantity in young children are investigated in this study. A total of 50 children, aged 3.0 to 4.7 years, were divided into three groups according to age with a large number clustered around age 4.0 years. Children were randomly assigned to one of two…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)
BRUNER, JEROME S. – 1965
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF PROFESSOR BRUNER, THE CENTER FOR COGNITIVE STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY HAS CARRIED OUT A SERIES OF STUDIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITION. THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 30 EXPERIMENTS ON THE GROWTH OF PERCEPTION, PROBLEM-SOLVING, AND REASONING BETWEEN THE AGES OF 3 AND 10, IN PURSUIT OF A THEORY TO ACCOUNT FOR THE CHANGES IN…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Migratory Child Div. – 1975
Located in 26 counties, the Florida Migratory Child Compensatory Program enrolls preschool children ages three, four, and five. Since many of these children travel with their parents from county to county, a need for a consistent curriculum emphasis developed. Therefore, using the National Migrant Goals, the Florida Migrant Early Childhood…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives
