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Bruininks, Robert H. – J Learning Disabilities, 1970
This article is a partial summary of a doctoral dissertation completed under the direction of Professor Lloyd M. Dunn at George Peabody College for Teachers. (RD)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Research, Perceptual Development
Fagan,William T. – Elements: Translating Theory Into Practice, 1971
A determination of whether a small group tutoring situation was feasible within a classroom for children with reading difficulties. (MB)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Grade 2, Grade 3, Language Experience Approach
Chastain, Shelton; Seguel, Mary Louise – J Outdoor Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discovery Learning, Elementary School Students, Experience
Standifer, James A. – J Res Music Educ, 1970
An experimental group and control group were exposed to an innovative program of music education. The former group was composed of lower class children and the latter of middle class children. The greater success was achieved in working with the first group. (CK)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cultural Enrichment, Educational Research, Hypothesis Testing
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Deich, Ruth F. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes
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Rosner, Jerome – Reading Teacher, 1971
Suggests specific ways in which the classroom teacher can teach to a child's perceptual and instructional weakness through his strengths. Notes that the goal is to provide instruction in the subject area, not just in perceptual skills. Bibliography. (RW)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Classroom Techniques, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary School Teachers
McGrady, Harold J., Jr.; Olson, Don A. – Except Children, 1970
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Aural Learning, Cognitive Ability, Exceptional Child Research
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Mittler, Gene A. – Studies in Art Education, 1983
Most art programs at the secondary level and beyond hope to produce students who can make discriminating aesthetic judgments about many kinds of visual art forms. This paper describes how students judge the art they encounter and suggests how art teachers might improve the quality of their students' responses. (Author/IS)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Classification, Decision Making
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Dunn, Rita; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1989
A number of studies conducted during the last decade have found that students' achievement increases when teaching methods match their learning styles--biological and developmental characteristics that affect how they learn. Correlational studies and experimental research studies are reviewed on instructional environments, perceptual preferences,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education
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Cooper, Robin Panneton; Aslin, Richard N. – Child Development, 1994
Examined infants' tendency, from a few days to nine months of age, to prefer infant-directed over adult-directed speech. Results suggest that exaggerated pitch contours that characterize infant-directed speech may become salient communicative signals for infants through language-rich, interactive experiences with caretakers and increased…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Caregiver Speech, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
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Viney, Wayne; Woody, William Douglas – Teaching of Psychology, 1995
Maintains that, although the relation of the mind to the brain is a common topic in teaching psychology; psychogeny, the study of the mind's origin, is a neglected problem. Outlines and discusses two theories: (1) identify theory; and (2) emergentism. Presents student reactions to psychogeny. (CFR)
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Psychology, Higher Education, Individual Psychology
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Golikoff, Roberta Michnick; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Reviews five books: (1) "Modularity and Constraints in Language and Cognition" (Gunnar and Maratsos); (2) "Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science" (Karmiloff-Smith"; (3) "The Self-System: Developmental Changes between and within Self-Concepts" (Oosterwegel and Oppenheimer); (4)…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Economics Education
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Wheatley, Grayson H., Ed. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1991
Because the absence of spatial activities in contemporary textbooks seemingly relegates visual imagery to a nonessential status, this discussion highlights the indispensable role of visual imagery within applied school mathematics learning activities. Included are examples of when imagery is used within students' daily applications and suggestions…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Learning Activities, Mathematics Education
Crick, Francis; Koch, Christof – Scientific American, 1992
Discusses approaches to the problem presented in understanding consciousness as a yet undiscovered process of interacting neuron activity. Presents the historical context of research in the area of human awareness and identifies research necessary to scientifically explain how the brain relates to the mind. (MCO)
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Definitions
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Pillow, Bradford H. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Two studies investigated children's understanding that biases may influence the interpretation of behavior. In the first experiment, most second graders inferred that a negatively biased, uninformed observer would construe an act as intentional. In the second, kindergartners and second graders appropriately used bias and knowledge information to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Bias, Early Childhood Education
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