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Brause, Rita Susan – 1975
The hypothesized relationship between an individual's age, educational background, and ability to understand aspects of semantic ambiguity was investigated in this study. The 90 subjects included ten students in each of grades two, four, six, eight, and ten, as well as ten college undergraduates, ten graduate students, ten high school graduates,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Ambiguity, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Sternberg, Robert J. – 1978
A total of 224 subjects participated in a study to determine how children and adults comprehend logical connectives. Specifically, the study examined the effects of age, content, and practice on the encoding and combination of logical relationships expressed by six types of logical connectives: conjunction, disjunction, conditionality,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education

Desjarlais, Lionel; Lazar, Avrim – 1976
This is the final report of the project entitled "A Study to Determine the Degree of Relationship between Linguistic Concepts and Structures in French as a Mother Tongue and Stages of Psychological Readiness of Students at the Junior and Intermediate Levels." The project's primary aim was to determine the psychological readiness, with…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Child Psychology, Cognitive Development