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Meindertsma, Heidi B.; van Dijk, Marijn W. G.; Steenbeek, Henderien W.; van Geert, Paul L. C. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2014
Intraindividual variability is a key component in explaining children's development and learning. Studying this type of variability on the micro-timescale can help us understand real-time constructive processes and the subsequent long-term development. The aim of this article is to study the process of children's understanding of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Concept Formation, Cognitive Development
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Rakoczy, Hannes; Warneken, Felix; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2007
In theory of mind research, there is a long standing dispute about whether children come to understand the subjectivity of both desires and beliefs at the same time (around age 4), or whether there is an asymmetry such that desires are understood earlier. To address this issue, 3-year olds' understanding of situations in which two persons have…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Young Children, Child Development, Beliefs
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Flavell, John H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Tested the hypothesis that understanding of the pretend-real distinction develops earlier than understanding of the theoretically related apparent-real distinction. Found 3-year-old children consistently performed better on pretend-real tasks than on apparent-real tasks, even when the tasks were identical except for the distinction tested. (SKC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks, Pretend Play
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Chapman, Michael; Lindenberger, Ulman – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Tested the hypothesis that some attempts to reduce the performance demands of concrete Piagetian operational tasks may have allowed children to solve those tasks with preoperational functions. Administered two previously used versions of the transitivity task for length and weight to 120 children six- to nine-years-old. The second version was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Tasks, Perceptual Motor Learning, Psychological Studies
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Frydman, Oliver; Bryant, Peter – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Examined Piaget's claim that young children have difficulties constructing common multiples because of an inability to abstract the number of actions performed to obtain a number of objects. Subjects were two groups of preschool children in sharing tasks. Results showed improvement in performance based on certain conditions, but the significance…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Computation, Developmental Tasks, Foreign Countries
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Halford, Graeme S.; Andrews, Glenda; Dalton, Cherie; Boag, Christine; Zielinski, Tracey – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002
Three experiments investigated effects of complexity on 2- to 6-year-olds' understanding of a beam balance. Found that 2- to 4-year-olds succeeded on problems that entailed binary relations, but 5- and 6-year-olds also succeeded on problems that entailed ternary relations. Ternary relations tasks from other domains (transitivity and class…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Developmental Tasks, Difficulty Level
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Dean, Anne L.; Frankhouser, Joann R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1988
Assessed J. F. Wohlwill's notion of way-stations in development by investigating developmental interdependencies among children's solutions to three proportionality tasks: a balance beam task, a probability judgment, and a juice-mixing task. (SKC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks, Evaluative Thinking
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Bryant, P. E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1987
Argues that Susan Sugarman's article in this issue contains some valid criticism of assumptions in developmental psychology, but that some of her conclusions regarding other assumptions need to be questioned. Suggests that many problems raised by Sugarman would disappear if developmental psychologists concentrated on children's early achievements…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages
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Sugarman, Susan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1987
Argues that there are significant ways in which neither Piaget nor his successors in developmental psychology have adequately described the child's mind and how it changes. Proposes alternative guidelines for research that aims more directly at identifying essential constituent features of the child's mental reality. (PCB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages
Zimmerman, Barry J. – 1973
This paper is a critical examination of Piaget's formulations on cognitive development based on recent social learning research. It is suggested that learning to conserve does not seem immutably dependent on the child's attaining some maturational age-related cognitive stage and that Piaget's theorizations do not sufficiently consider social…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
Ruble, Diane N.; Nakamura, Charles Y. – 1972
This study examined variables related to problem-solving approaches of young children, using the theoretical framework provided by Zigler and his collaborators in their work on outerdirectedness. Four aspects of outerdirectedness were examined: developmental trends, effects of different types of reinforcement, effects of task difficulty, and pride…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Canning, Judy Harkness – 1985
This manual describes the benefits and procedures for implementing a developmental play program. It is intended to be used by both the leader--a counselor, teacher, or other professional--and students who have been trained in the peer facilitator skills. The manual does not include a detailed training program for peer facilitators, but the nature…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Cross Age Teaching
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Fatouros, Cherryl – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1995
Review identifies concerns and criticisms as well as research findings about young children's use of computers. Review is organized in terms of the child's needs in all developmental areas--physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and language--and implications of these needs for planning. Findings include support for enhanced cognitive development,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Games, Computer Software Selection
Lichtenberg, Philip; Norton, Dolores G. – 1970
This report surveys writings by National Institute of Mental Health grant recipients who have investigated this first five years of life. The authors attempted to identify and correlate ideas, themes, perspectives and issues which can be useful in the formulation and evaluation of social policies related to infant and child development. Major…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Child Rearing, Children
Woolner, Rosestelle B., Ed. – 1987
Speakers at the Lipman Research Institute's inaugural symposium examined research and issues related to appropriate programs for 4-year-olds. David Weikart described the Perry Preschool Project, an ongoing study begun in 1962 of 123 black youths at risk of failing, and the High/Scope Preschool Curriculum Study. Jane Stallings covered short-term…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Conferences