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1967
THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN HUMAN LEARNING WAS ESTABLISHED IN JANUARY, 1964 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TO "DEVELOP A CONTINUOUS AND CLOSE-WORKING RELATIONSHIP AMONG PSYCHOLOGISTS IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY DOING RESEARCH ON HUMAN LEARNING AND ON PROCESSES RELATED TO HUMAN LEARNING." THE AIM OF THE CENTER IS TO SERVE BOTH THE…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Development, Experimental Psychology

Hamrick, Kathy B. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1980
If the principles of languages are applied to the learning of arithmetic, it appears that elementary grade pupils are being introduced to mathematical symbols at too early an age. (MP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Learning Theories
Davidson, Robert E.; And Others – 1970
Eighty sixth-grade subjects, split into five independent groups, learned two PA lists of 12 noun pairs each. Two groups performed under traditional transfer conditions with lists conforming to a negative transfer paradigm, A-B, A-C, or to a reference paradigm A-B, C-D. Two other groups learned the same lists under a syntactic PA method where the…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development

Dahlberg, Lucy Ann – Journal of Experimental Education, 1987
Research literature on childrens' causal understanding in oral and written settings is reviewed. Results show that maturation and task complexity both influence childrens' causal understanding. However, the findings are contradictory, and no generalizations could be made about which factors influence causal understanding and at which ages they are…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
Beiswenger, Hugo – 1968
A. R. Luria, in his conception of the verbal control of behavior, regards four fundamental and distinctive functional attributes of the human speech system as making up a signaling system that humans alone possess: (1) the nominative role of language, (2) the generalizing or semantic role, (3) the communicative role, and (4) the role of…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Development
Bloom, Lois – 1976
This paper proposes a broad outline of a variable model of language development and explores several particulars of such a model in the language behavior of four two-year-old children. The process by which information about language is progressively transformed and integrated rather than merely being added together can be seen in the shifting…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis