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Ladd, Gary W.; Price, Joseph M. – Child Development, 1986
Assesses the degree of difficulty parents attribute to specific socialization tasks; explores the relation between parents' perceived difficulty and children's perceived and actual competence in these two domains; and determines whether the ease or difficulty of these child rearing tasks, as perceived by parents, varies as a function of the…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education

Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Tests seven- , 10- , and 13-year-olds for developmental differences in processes and strategies involved in geometric matrix solution and the relationship between strategy differences and item complexity. (AS)
Descriptors: Analogy, Developmental Stages, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Wagner, James – 1983
A series of three experiments was conducted for the purposes of (1) clarifying problems of previous research on the relationship between working memory capacity and performance on figural analogy tasks, and (2) exploring developmental issues concerning executive strategies, working memory capacity, and perceptual processing. Directly manipulating…
Descriptors: Analogy, Attention, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes