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Peer reviewedAsher, Steven R.; Parke, Ross D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Children's communication performance improves with age, which could result from increases in children's vocabularies, changes in their strategies of selecting messages from their vocabularies, or both. Three experiments were conducted to evaluate these explanations. Two types of communication tasks were employed. These data suggest younger…
Descriptors: Ability, Age, Associative Learning, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Peer reviewedKogan, Nathan; Chadrow, Mindy – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
Examines the differential influence of pictorial vs. verbal forms on the comprehension of metaphor in younger (second grade) and older (fifth grade) children through their performance on the pictorial Metaphoric Triads Task. (HOD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Generalization
