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Saravo, Anne; Gollin, Eugene S. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Project carried out under Contract No. PH 43 65-1011 between the Public Health Service, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development and the Fels Research Institute.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Mediation Theory
Keogh, Barbara – 1972
Two Masters' theses, by Andrea Weiss and Melinda Welles, pursuing related questions were synthesized into a final report, "Field Independence-Dependence, Reflection-Impulsivity, and Problem-Solving Styles of Preschool Children," of which this interim report is a summary. The major purposes of both investigations were to determine: (1)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo, Overt Response, Perceptual Development
Download full textKeogh, Barbara K. – 1970
This study was designed to consider effects of age, sex, intelligence, lateral usage, and lateral awareness on young children's performance of spatial organization tasks. The sample consisted of 79 Caucasian, middle socioeconomic status nursery school children (mean C.A. 57.80, S.D. 4.47 months), 44 boys and 35 girls. Spatial organization was…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Lateral Dominance, Nursery Schools
Blank, Marion – 1968
Research has indicated that one significant deficiency in the intellectual capabilities of disadvantaged children is a disability in abstract thinking. Although all very young children lack this ability, the environment of the middle class child provides an opportunity so that as this child matures, the ability to think in abstract terms naturally…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Deduction, Disadvantaged
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1973
These papers deal with four specific propositions concerning the role of measurement in early childhood education: 1. measurement should play an integral part in early education, independent of special pressures to evaluate program effects; 2. the measures should be designed or adapted specifically to the continuing needs of preprimary educators…
Descriptors: Child Development, Divergent Thinking, Early Childhood Education, Educational Development
Steg, Doreen R. – 1971
This study compares effects of an early childhood instructional program--designed to develop auditory and visual perception skills by stressing differential diagnosis, prescriptive suggestions and concomitant procedures--with programs typically found in nursery schools. Treatment group consisted of twelve paired on intelligence, auditory and…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis
Nimnicht, Glen; And Others – 1967
Program objectives were to develop children's abilities to deal with everyday and school related problems, and to make them more inner-directed by (1) developing a positive self-image, (2) increasing sensory and perceptual acuity, (3) improving language skills, and (4) improving problem-solving and concept formation abilities. Forty-five…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged
