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Peer reviewedBlock, Karen K.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Results showed that reversal shift was easier than extradimensional shift and that relative shift difficulty was unaffected by instructions, in contrast to findings with college-age subjects. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology
Download full textVago, Stephen; Siegler, Robert S. – 1977
This paper presents a framework for conceptualizing the different ways in which instructions in experimental tasks may be misunderstood. Five possible types of misunderstandings are identified and discussed: (1) misunderstanding of a particular term in the instructions; (2) misinterpretation of a task because the instructions are difficult to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Tests, Developmental Psychology
Brainerd, Charles J.; Hooper, Frank H. – 1974
This report reviews some ostensibly conflicting empirical findings which have been reported in conjunction with Elkind's (1967) conjecture that Piaget's conservation problems tap two distinct concepts. The discrepant findings which report on the order of emergence of identity conservation and equivalence conservation are discussed. An analysis of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students
