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Peer reviewedShultz, 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
Brown, Ina Corinne – Educ Leadership, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comprehension, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedPfister, Guenter G. – Foreign Language Annals, 1974
Descriptors: Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Instruction, Reinforcement
Peer reviewedLaPointe, 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)
Download full textWinner, Ellen; And Others – 1978
Two tasks were used to choose between two rival accounts--cognitive vs. pragmatic--of children's failure to comprehend metaphors. A total of 120 children, in three age groups (6, 7, and 9 years) were given either an explication or a multiple choice task to assess comprehension of 15 novel comparisons expressed in five alternative forms varying in…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
COOPER, DAVID – 1962
LEARNING THE BASIC SKILLS OF READING AND WRITING IS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION. ALL STUDENTS SHOULD COMPREHEND, AND REACT CRITICALLY TO, THE IDEAS AND PROBLEMS ABOUT WHICH THEY READ. STUDENTS WHO WERE CONSIDERED MATURE READERS COULD DISTINGUISH FACT FROM OPINION, DISTINGUISH BETWEEN CONNOTATIVE AND DENOTATIVE LANGUAGE, AND DRAW…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Critical Reading, Curriculum Guides, Instructional Materials
Scottish Central Committee on Primary Education. – 1978
The purpose of this publication is to point out that reading comprehension questions frequently assess only literal comprehension, and to suggest kinds of questions that involve broader levels of comprehension. The publication first presents two reading passages; for each one it lists sample questions that involve only literal comprehension and…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development, Questioning Techniques
Peer reviewedHeidenheimer, Patricia – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Four types of semantic relation, assumed by different researchers to be implicated in the organization of semantic information, were investigated by means of false recognition and word association tasks presented to independent samples of 4- and 5-year-old children. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedFurth, Hans G.; And Others – Child Development, 1974
The dependence of immediate, short-term and long-term reproductive memory on operative understanding was studied in elementary school students. Results are interpreted in terms of Piaget's theory. (ST)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Intellectual Development
Schoeller, Arthur W. – Instructor, 1973
Suggests ways teachers can provide students with practice in thinking (Editor)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comprehension, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedMattleman, Marciene – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Comprehension, Context Clues, Intellectual Development, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedLargo, Remo H.; Howard, Judy A. – Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 1979
Found no correlations between types of play behavior and speech measures, that identification of objects upon verbal request was not related to any type of play behavior, and that comprehension of verbal requests for functional or representational play was positively correlated with the display of such play. Journal availability: J. B. Lippincott…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Early Childhood Education, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedErwin, 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
Peer reviewedGillet, Jean Wallace; Kita, M. Jane – Reading Teacher, 1979
Suggests categorization of words as an alternative to traditional word study. (MKM)
Descriptors: Classification, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Primary Education
Peer reviewedWalker, Alice A. – Journal of Educational Research, 1979
A series of tests of dimensional understanding showed that there was a hierarchical sequence, with three year olds able to handle less complex tasks than four year olds. (Editor)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Conservation (Concept)
