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Social Class and Communication Style: The Ability of Middle and Working Class Five Year Olds to Encode and Decode Abstract Stimuli

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Johnston, Rhona Poole; Singleton, C. H. – British Journal of Psychology, 1977

This study investigated whether five year old children would show similar social class differences in coding style to those found in Heider's (1971) study of ten year old children. Middle class children used a part-descriptive coding style, whereas working class children use a whole-inferential style; the findings were congruent with those of E.…

Descriptors: Children, Codification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Illustrations

Redundancy in the Concept Attainment of Adolescents

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Singleton, C. H. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977

The production of informationally redundant choices in a selection concept attainment task was investigated in relation to age and intelligence, using 62 adolescents aged 12:7--15:6 drawn from the lower middle ability range of a comprehensive school. (Editor)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Concept Formation, Decision Making, Educational Psychology