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A Cognitive Developmental Study of Metaphor Comprehension
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Billow, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Metaphors of similarity and proportionality, together with a pictorial form of similarity metaphors, proverbs, and several Piaget-type cognitive tasks, were given to 50 boys aged 5 through 13 years. Results indicated that metaphor comprehension is a type of classificatory behavior, the development of which is related to maturing cognitive…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Developmental Differences in the Use of Distinctiveness, Consensus, and Consistency Information for Making Causal Attributions.
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DiVitto, Barbara; McArthur, Leslie Zebrowitz – Developmental Psychology, 1978
This study examines developmental differences in third and sixth graders' and college students' use of distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency information for making causal attributions. (CM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, College Students, Comprehension
Development of Time, Speed, and Distance Concepts.
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Siegler, Robert S.; Richards, D. Dean – Developmental Psychology, 1979
The rule assessment approach was used to examine five-, eight-, eleven-, and twenty-year-olds' concepts of time, speed, and distance. (CM)
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Decision Making