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Prentice, Norman M.; Fathman, Robert E. – Proceedings, 80th Annual Convention, APA, 1972, 1972
The promise of joking riddles as a developmental index of children's humor was investigated through studying the enjoyment and comprehension of riddles and nonriddles by first-, third-, and fifth-grade normal children. Based on previous studies, it was predicted that enjoyment and comprehension of riddles would increase with age and that the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Comprehension, Grade 1
Donaldson, Marcia Jackson – 1973
The major purpose of this study was to investigate developmental patterns of understandings of four types of selected phenomena possessed by economically and racially different boys and girls. A total of 64 boys and girls, 32 blacks and 32 whites, were selected from Head Start, kindergarten, nursery, and primary schooling environments and then…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Development, Doctoral Dissertations
Bard, Therese Bissen – 1978
Two hundred Honolulu-area students from the fourth, fifth, eighth, and ninth grades participated in a study that examined the variables effects of five selected factors (developmental level, sex, reading ability, adult intervention, and variation in film content/form) on the ability of two age groups (nine and ten year old children and thirteen…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Comprehension
Download full textFRIEDMAN, HERBERT L.; ORR, DAVID B. – 1965
JUNE 1964 RESEARCH INDICATED THAT EXPOSURE TO TIME-COMPRESSED SPEECH COULD PRODUCE A SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVED DEGREE OF COMPREHENSION, IN MALE COLLEGE STUDENTS, OF MATERIAL PRESENTED AT SPEEDS RANGING FROM 325 TO 475 WORDS PER MINUTE. AS AN EXTENSION OF ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED IN THE PROGRESS REPORT OF JUNE 1964, THE EXPERIMENT DESCRIBED HERE WAS…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Aural Learning, College Students, Comprehension
Sponseller, Doris Bergen – 1977
The structure of the testing condition is an important variable in measuring young children's language comprehension. This study examined effects of two testing conditions on the language comprehension scores of 24 toddlers, mean age 20.3 months. The methodology was based on the rationale that a test which allows parents to select stimuli which…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Environmental Influences
