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Shore, Cecilia – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Explores the relations among combinatorial capacities in language, symbolic play, blockbuilding, and nonsemantic action sequences within a sample of 18- to 24-month-old children, as well as assessing the developmental level of a selected subset of concepts. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Goodman, Nelson; And Others – 1972
Aimed at advancement of the arts through improvement of education for both understanding and production, this long range basic research program dealt primarily with the study of the varieties and interaction of human abilities, the nature of the tasks involved in the several arts, and the available means for inculcating or fostering the abilities…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Art, Art Education, Cognitive Ability

Diamond, Stephen R.; Royce, Joseph R. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1980
Factor analytic studies suggest that there are six replicable second order cognitive factors. These six factors lend themselves to being interpreted as aspects of Royce's three ways of knowing: conceptual, perceptual, or symbolical. This view provides a unified explanation of the second and third order factors. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Achievement, Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style
Pellegrini, Anthony D. – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1982
The effects of different models of exploration questioning on young children's associative fluency were examined in two experiments with kindergarteners. It is concluded that asking descriptive and difference exploration questions are most facilitative of children's associative fluency. (Author/SEW)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development