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Hutson, Barbara A. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1975
Tested the comprehension of 3- and 4-year-old children with probable and improbable sentences in active and passive voice in order to evaluate the importance of semantic support for comprehension of passive sentences. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
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Wellman, Henry M. – Child Development, 1977
Three-, four- and five-year-old children were presented an array of metamemory tasks designed to test their understanding of variables which affect the difficulty of memory performance. (JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Memorization
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LaPointe, Karen; O'Donnell, James P. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
The influence of perceptual factors and language comprehension on quantity judgments (number conservation) was assessed in children, aged 2-5. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Conservation (Concept)
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Heidenheimer, Patricia – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Four types of semantic relation, assumed by different researchers to be implicated in the organization of semantic information, were investigated by means of false recognition and word association tasks presented to independent samples of 4- and 5-year-old children. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Garber, Howard L. – 1971
The purpose of this study was to investigate the Ivanov-Smolensky procedure as an effective clinical device for the assessment of cognitive development in children under four years old. This procedure, expressly developed for assessing development in children with limited verbal skills, minimizes some of the research problems associated with young…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Development, Intellectual Development
Jennings, Kay D.; Martin, Patricia Peters – 1979
This study examines the longitudinal relationships between mastery motivation and differentiated measures of intellectual development assessed at 1 and 3 1/2 years of age in a sample of 35 children (21 boys and 14 girls). At one year three types of mastery motivation were assessed using structured tasks: (1) producing effects (engaging in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Infants, Intellectual Development
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deVilliers, Peter A.; deVilliers, Jill G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Investigates the development and production of spatial deictic terms ("this/that", "here/there", "my/your") in the context of a hide-and-seek game using preschool children and college age adults. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
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Rossi, Sheila; Wittrock, M. C. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cluster Grouping, Developmental Psychology, Intellectual Development
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Webb, Roger A.; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Developmental Psychology
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Wellman, Henry M.; Johnson, Carl N. – Child Development, 1979
Assesses comprehension of the mental verbs "remember" and "forget" among three-, four-, five-, and seven-year-old children by having the child judge whether or not toy characters in different situations remembered or forgot. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
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Liberman, Isabelle Y.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Describes a study of the developmental ordering of syllable and phoneme segmentation abilities in preschool, kindergarten and first-grade children. Results indicate that both syllable and phoneme segmentation increased with grade level, but analysis into phonemes is significantly harder and perfected later than analysis into syllables. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Intellectual Development
Suppes, Patrick; Feldman, Shirley – 1969
To determine to what extent children of preschool age comprehend the meaning of logical connectives, 64 5- and 6-year-olds were told to hand differently colored and shaped wooden blocks to an experimenter. The commands involved various English idioms used for conjunction (e.g. both black and round), disjunction (either black or round), and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Miscione, John L.; And Others – 1977
This study investigated preschool children's understanding of the words "know" and "guess." Subjects for the study were 48 male and female preschool children ranging in age from 3.6 to 6.6 years. The children were divided into three age groups representing one year intervals. The task for the study involved a "guessing" game in which a colored…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Developmental Stages
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Carew, Jean V. – 1976
A total of 23 children were observed from age 1 to 3 in order to assess day-to-day learning environments and their effect on intellectual development. Observers used a time-sampling technique to code behaviors for one hour on three to five separate occasions during each of four periods: age 12-15 months, 18-21 months, 24-27 months and 30-33…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Early Experience, Family Environment, Home Instruction
Ball, Rachel S. – 1971
The present report is the fourth of a series concerned with mental functioning and its development in early childhood. The study attempted to discover whether the same children tested at intervals of one or more years showed similar development in thinking ability from age to age. Longitudinal test protocols were obtained for 92 children at 3…
Descriptors: Ability, Age Differences, Aptitude, Convergent Thinking
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