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Korba, Jarrah; Hemmeter, Mary Louise; Golden, Adrienne K.; Nuhring, Kate – Journal of Early Intervention, 2022
A multiple probe design across participants was used to evaluate the effectiveness of progressive time delay (PTD) during small group instruction to teach social problem-solving to preschoolers and to assess generalization to novel contexts. PTD was used to teach children to both name and use a variety of problem-solving solutions. Target…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Preschool Children, Problem Solving, Small Group Instruction
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Parsonson, Barry S.; Naughton, Kathleen A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1988
Results of two experiments with five-year-olds indicated that: (1) conservation can be quickly taught with lasting results; (2) training on a limited range of exemplars will produce generalized correct responses to other, untrained classes of conservation problems; and (3) children's explanations of their judgments change as a result of exposure…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Generalization, Preschool Children
Gross, Thomas F.; Hayes, Donald S. – 1978
This study assesses the effects of visual and verbal rehearsal on the problem solving efficiency of preschool children. The study examines the use of stimulus pretraining designed to induce verbal rehearsal and compares the effectiveness of induced verbal rehearsal with the effectiveness of induced visual rehearsal. Fifty-four middle class…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Information Seeking, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory