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Waters, Gillian M.; Beck, Sarah R. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
In two experiments, we investigated whether 4- to 5-year-old children's ability to demonstrate their understanding of aspectuality was influenced by how the test question was phrased. In Experiment 1, 60 children chose whether to look or feel to gain information about a hidden object (identifiable by sight or touch). Test questions referred either…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Spatial Ability, Perception
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Williams, Connie K.; Kamii, Constance – Young Children, 1986
Maintains that young children learn to think when they act on objects, thus developing what Piaget refers to as physical and logico-mathematical knowledge. Teachers can encourage thinking/mental action by creating situations that are personally meaningful to the children, by providing decision-making opportunities, and by providing opportunities…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Early Childhood Education
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Chappell, Gerald E.; Johnson, Gayl A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1976
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Communication Disorders, Delayed Speech
DeLoache, Judy S.; And Others – 1981
A seriation task (assembling a set of nesting cups) was used in this study to examine developmental changes in young children's ability to restructure a situation. Forty young children, eight each at 18, 24, 30, 36, and 40 months of age, participated in the study. Each child was presented with five nesting cups and was told he or she could play…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Seibert, Jeffrey M.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Tests hypotheses that social and object skills can be equated for cognitive complexity and that correlations between measures organized according to levels are high for all samples spanning the developmental range. Cognitive levels of both object and social skills were assessed for 50 normal and 34 handicapped children. Hypotheses were confirmed.…
Descriptors: Chronological Age, Cognitive Development, Day Care, Disabilities
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Wolf, Yuval – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1995
Five- to six-year-old children estimated the size of Euclidian objects using an addition rule of Height plus Width, rather than a multiplying rule. Within the framework of information integration theory, tested whether intensive handling of objects would facilitate shift from addition rule to multiplication rule. Found that following handling,…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes