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Cook, Harold; Murray, Frank B. – 1973
The purpose of the present experiment was to investigate whether the effect of observing a peer who was conserving could facilitate subsequent acquisition and transfer of conservation ability in a nonconserving child. Eighty-two nonconserving first grade children acquired the ability to give conservation judgments and reasons on six conservation…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Grade 1, Middle Class
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Rosenthal, Ted L.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1972
Studied were the effects on observational concept learning of the experimenter as his own model, versus the experimenter plus a separate model, versus a nonmodeling (control) procedure, as well as the provision of favorable versus neutral outcome-expectation. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Disadvantaged Youth, Expectation, Grade 1