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Erden Ozcan, Sule; Bal, Ayten Pinar – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
The purpose of this study is to analyse geometric transformations of children in the early childhood period. The study utilised a case study to design one of the qualitative research methods. Interviews were conducted with 6-, 7- and 8-year-old children, in total 24 children, who were enrolled in a private pre-school and a primary school of the…
Descriptors: Transformations (Mathematics), Young Children, Preschools, Elementary Schools
Casler, Krista; Eshleman, Angelica; Greene, Kimberly; Terziyan, Treysi – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Children sometimes make "scale errors," attempting to interact with tiny object replicas as though they were full size. Here, we demonstrate that instrumental tools provide special insight into the origins of scale errors and, moreover, into the broader nature of children's purpose-guided reasoning and behavior with objects. In Study 1, 1.5- to…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Child Development, Error Patterns, Spatial Ability
Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – Infant and Child Development, 2009
Understanding how responses become prepotent is essential for understanding when inhibitory control is needed in everyday behaviour. We investigated prepotency in the grass-snow task--in which a child points to a green card when the experimenter says "snow" and a white card when the experimenter says "grass". Experiment 1 (n =…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Child Behavior, Perceptual Development, Neuropsychology
Sarama, Julie; Clements, Douglas H. – American Journal of Play, 2009
The authors explore how children's play can support the development of the foundations of mathematics learning and how adults can support children's representation of--and thus the "mathematization" of--their play. The authors review research about the amount and nature of mathematics found in the free play of children. They briefly…
Descriptors: Play, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Mathematics Skills

Lepecq, Jean-Claude – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
Investigates the ability of four-, five-, and six-year-olds to locate their starting point and retrieve an immobilized object after being blindfolded and moved. Results indicate that, while children as young as four years can coordinate an initial egocentrated target location with what they believe to be their starting point, computation of the…
Descriptors: Egocentrism, Perceptual Development, Personal Space, Spatial Ability

Goswami, Usha – Child Development, 1995
In three experiments, three- and four-year olds were asked to map relative size from one array of objects to another, map relative size to relative proportion, and map relative size to a variety of perceptual dimensions. Children were able to make relational mappings based on size when spatial positions and concrete representations of size of…
Descriptors: Analogy, Perceptual Development, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception
Naude, H.; Marx, J.; Pretorius, E.; Hislop-Esterhuyzen, N. – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
One of the important nutrients during pregnancy is vitamin A or related compounds called retinoids. Although it is well-known that vitamin A deficiency may be detrimental to foetal development, overdosage of retinoids might cause developmental defects, particularly affecting the central nervous system development of the foetus, causing hindbrain…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Cognitive Ability, Pregnancy, Educational Testing
Treiman, Rebecca; Levin, Iris; Kessler, Brett – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
Letter names play an important role in early literacy. Previous studies of letter name learning have examined the Latin alphabet. The current study tested learners of Hebrew, comparing their patterns of performance and types of errors with those of English learners. We analyzed letter-naming data from 645 Israeli children who had not begun formal…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Second Language Learning, Semitic Languages, Emergent Literacy

Randall, Tom M. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1980
Nonoperational first graders were taught Piaget's horizontality concept. In comparison to control subjects, training group subjects significantly increased correct responses, maintained their gains, and transferred their training from a straight-sided jar to a round-sided jar. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Grade 1, Perceptual Development

Namy, Laura L.; Smith, Linda B.; Gershkoff-Stowe, Lisa – Cognitive Development, 1997
Examined whether spatial classification is discovered during play and if external products of play lead children to use space to represent similarity. Found through two experiments--a longitudinal study of four children's classification behaviors, and the examination of play behavior with two types of objects--that comparison of different kinds…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Classification, Cognitive Development, Longitudinal Studies

Nicholls, Andrea L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1995
Two experiments examined children's ability to use lengths of lines on a page to show orientations of object surfaces. Found that five- and six-year olds are more reluctant to depart from actual object proportions than seven- and eight-year olds, but children in both age groups can foreshorten line lengths to indicate surfaces receding from a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Freehand Drawing, Perceptual Development, Psychomotor Skills

Fabricius, William V.; Wellman, Henry M. – Child Development, 1993
Investigated 4-6 year olds' ability to compare the distances covered by a direct and an indirect route to a location. Although many children believed that both routes covered the same distance, about 40% of the four year olds could explain why the direct route was shorter. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Distance, Early Childhood Education, Perceptual Development

Clifton, Rachel K.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Compared head circumference and interaural distance in infants between birth and 22 weeks of age and in a small sample of preschool children and adults. Calculated changes in interaural time differences according to age. Found a large shift in distance. (SKC)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis, Infants

Rosser, Rosemary A.; Chandler, Kacey – Cognitive Development, 1995
Examined how children's and adults' initial conceptions of objects and space influence predictions about the physical world, but lead the naive person to misconstrue a dynamic event. Found that participants proficiently anticipated where an oscillating screen would contact a hidden object, but underestimated the distance until contact.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Depth Perception

Rieser, John J.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Six experiments assessed young children's spatial orientation relative to their imagined surroundings. The experiments found that children as young as 3.5 years were able, like adults, to accurately walk along a path that replicated the route between their seat and the teacher's desk in their preschool classroom. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Imagination
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