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Miller, Jack W.; and others – J Exp Educ, 1969
Project of the Institute on School Learning and Individual Differences and The John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, George Peabody College for Teachers.
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Intellectual Development, Perceptual Development, Programed Instruction
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
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)
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Woods, Donald R. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1989
Describes the contents of a book entitled The Care and Feeding of Ideas: A Guide to Encouraging Creativity which considers the thinking process, why skills need to be developed, and how students use or should use these thinking skills. (RT)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Science
Osborne, R. Travis; Lindsey, James M. – 1965
A total of 125 white children from three counties in Georgia (selected as representative of small rural and medium and large industrial urban populations) were administered a battery of tests in three phases of their schooling: (1) during the summer preceding their admission to the first grade, (2) near the end of the first grade, and (3) near the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Expressive Language
Boger, Robert P.; Ambron, Sueann R. – 1968
Program planning for economically deprived children might be improved if behavioral information pertinent to specific subcultural groups were systematically obtained. This prospectus focuses on developing a three-part behavioral model which, when integrated, would identify and profile the nature of disadvantagement in terms idiosyncratic and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Behavior Theories, Blacks, Concept Formation