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Geary, David C.; vanMarle, Kristy; Chu, Felicia W.; Hoard, Mary K.; Nugent, Lara – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Children's first mathematics concept is their understanding of the quantities represented by number words (cardinal value), and the age at which they achieve this insight predicts their readiness for mathematics learning in school. We provide the first exploration of the factors that influence the age of becoming a cardinal principle knower (CPK),…
Descriptors: Age, Numbers, Preschool Children, Longitudinal Studies
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Tytler, Russell; Prain, Vaughan – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
Recent accounts by cognitive scientists of factors affecting cognition imply the need to reconsider current dominant conceptual theories about science learning. These new accounts emphasize the role of context, embodied practices, and narrative-based representation rather than learners' cognitive constructs. In this paper we analyse data from a…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cognitive Psychology, Science Education, Learning Processes
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Alexander, Joyce M.; Johnson, Kathy E.; Leibham, Mary E.; Kelley, Ken – Cognitive Development, 2008
We conducted a longitudinal analysis of the relative intensity and duration of interests associated with conceptual domains between the ages of 4 and 6 years, respectively. Results indicated a significant portion of preschool children do sustain an interest in conceptual domains during some portion of their childhood. Expected gender differences…
Descriptors: Females, Interests, Preschool Children, Probability
Starkey, David – 1979
Studies of concept formation in infancy have demonstrated that certain experimental settings can elicit spontaneous behavior from infants which has been called "sorting" or "object grouping". This study pursues the issue of early sorting with infants as young as 6 months, and with a broader range of stimuli than has been used…
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Grath, Gerald; Landers, William F. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Infants
Webb, Roger A.; And Others – 1973
Young children were studied in tasks that required them to select one object as "different" from another. Children systematically selected maximally similar objects until about 3 years of age, and thereafter performed correctly. Additional data derived from the children's verbal justifications and refusals to select suggested a 4-stage model in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
Deal, Therry N. – 1970
This study reports a factor analysis of the data resulting from a 3-year longitudinal investigation into conservation of number and related mathematical type concepts. Conservation of number, which represents a subset within the concept of conservation, was measured by use of a 20-item, criterion-referenced testing device. The subjects, who were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Factor Analysis
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Speece, Deborah L.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1986
A longitudinal investigation on development of conservation skills in 31 learning disabled (LD) children suggested that delayed transition between preoperational and concrete operational thought may be an important factor in understanding the continued school failure of learning disabled children. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Stages
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Starkey, David – Child Development, 1981
Examines the issue of object sorting in early infancy. Forty-eight infants at 6, 9, and 12 months were presented with eight sets of small, manipulable objects. At six months, selective manipulation was absent; at nine months, 94 percent of the infants sequentially touched similar objects and at 12 months 100 percent did so. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Sandhofer, Catherine M.; Smith, Linda B. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
A longitudinal study examined the role of a mapping system in 2-year olds' learning of color and size words. Results indicated that the children acquired color maps in a characteristic order and showed a different acquisition pattern for size words. Results suggest that learning word associations may promote color-word acquisition; learning color…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Mapping, Color, Concept Formation
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Willatts, Peter – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Three longitudinal studies examined means-ends behavior of 6- to 8-month olds. Found that intentional means-end behavior increased between 6 and 7 months, with 7-month olds' performance influenced by the presence of a toy on the cloth. Performance was the same when cloth was attached to or separate from the toy. By 8 months, infants adjusted…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Tasks
Kalyan-Masih, Violet – 1979
This study is part of a longitudinal research project which investigated the cognitive and social development of rural children (ages 3-5, 6-8, and 9-11 years) in eight states of the U.S.A. This paper, however, reports only the cognitive development of 3- to 5-year-old subjects in rural Nebraska from 1976-1978. The longitudinal sample plus control…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
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Little, Audrey – Child Development, 1972
Results indicate that within the limitations of this study there is evidence that children with superior" intelligence showed more mature response patterns on Piaget-type tasks than children of the same age with average" intelligence test scores. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Intelligence Differences
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Wishart, Jennifer G. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1991
This overview reviews a program of interlinked cross-sectional and longitudinal investigations of the nature of cognitive development in infants and young children with Down's Syndrome. The research falls into three groupings: object concept studies, operant learning experiments, and IQ studies. Early results suggest a common learning style which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Downs Syndrome
Hooper, Frank H.; Toniolo, Thomas A. – 1976
Kindergarten and third grade children originally assessed in 1973 were retested one year later on a series of conservation and transitive inference tasks (length and weight content areas). An additional sample of matched cohort/grade subjects was assessed in the second year only to permit evaluation of repeat measurement biases for the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
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