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Peer reviewedDavis, J. Kent; Klausmeier, Herbert J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, High School Students, Individual Differences
Mermelstein, Egon; Meyer, Edwina – Child Develop, 1969
Research supported by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity grant 1492.
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Conflict, Conservation (Concept)
Klein, Nancy K.; Safford, Philip L. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1978
The performance of 22 trainable mentally handicapped Ss (6-12 years old) given training in the identification and utilization in object sorting of dimensional properties of form, size, and color was compared with nontrained controls. (Author)
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Exceptional Child Research, Individualized Instruction
Peer reviewedDiekhoff, George M.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1982
Relatively simple changes in cognitive activities during prose learning can substantially affect information acquisition, yet many students' strategies are ineffective. A prose learning strategy training program using network models of long-term memory structure and depth-of-processing theory is presented with evidence of its effectiveness among…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Kabanova-Meller, E. N. – 1969
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a book in which the author sums up her research on the problem of training and transfering various types of mental activity. The second part of the book deals with one of the most important problems of mental development, that of the evidences and conditions of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
Download full textBrainerd, Charles J. – 1975
This paper briefly reviews the literature concerning the Paiget-Burner debate over the roles of identify and reversibility rules in conservation acquisition, and describes an experiment designed to determine whether one group of rules is more closely related to conservation than the other. A group of children, aged 4-6 years, received tests of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensation (Concept), Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)
SHANTZ, CAROLYN UHLINGER; SIGEL, IRVING E. – 1967
PIAGET HAS BEEN CONCERNED WITH THE ASSESSMENT OF THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF CONSERVATION AND RELATED PROCESSES, BUT HE HAS NOT FOCUSED EXPERIMENTALLY ON THE FACTORS WHICH CAN ACCOUNT FOR THE LEARNING OF CONSERVATION. TO INVESTIGATE SUCH FACTORS, RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED (1) TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO PARTICULAR GROUP TRAINING…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing
Gross, Thomas F.; Hayes, Donald S. – 1978
This study assesses the effects of visual and verbal rehearsal on the problem solving efficiency of preschool children. The study examines the use of stimulus pretraining designed to induce verbal rehearsal and compares the effectiveness of induced verbal rehearsal with the effectiveness of induced visual rehearsal. Fifty-four middle class…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Information Seeking, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory
