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Demetriou, Andreas; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1993
Presents a theory of cognitive development that postulates a general cognitive processing system, a hypercognitive system governing self-regulation, and specialized structural systems responsible for processing different reality domains. Suggests five principles that serve as organizational pivots of developing cognition. Reports the results of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development

Demetriou, Andreas; Efklides, Anastasia – Child Development, 1985
A total of 400 subjects differing in age, sex, and SES were tested on strategic, relational, experimental, and postformal abilities. Results showed that Demetriou and Efklides' model of the development of formal thought could be integrated with theories claiming that thought is structured in different inquiring systems and develops postformally as…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
Wilsman, Margaret – 1979
The questions of whether undergraduate students use different processes in evaluating their own learning in a course, and whether such differences are related to differences in personality development or cognitive development were studied. It was predicted that students possessing well developed abstract conceptual structures would show a more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation