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Peer reviewedGelman, Rochel – American Psychologist, 1979
Reviews evidence against theories about preschool childrens' egocentricity and cognitive ineptness in the areas of classification, communication, number and order concepts, memory skills, and capacity for reasoning about causal relationships. Holds that preschoolers have been misunderstood because researchers tend to approach them with tasks…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Concept Formation
Download full textFrager, Alan M. – 1979
Well-known questioning strategies, built on question classification systems, are examined. Types of question classification systems are identified as: "hierarchical," which are sequential and cumulative; "non-hierarchical," which are based on elements which should not be rank ordered; systems which are "context-bound" to specifics; and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Objectives, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
