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Gallas, Howard B.; Lewis, Michael – 1977
This study examines the relationship between mother-infant behavior and the infant's performance on perceptual-cognitive tasks as a function of the infant's sex. A total of 189 12-week-old infants and their mothers were observed in their homes during 2 hours of infant awake time. In addition, the Mental Development Index (MDI) of the Bayley Scales…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Infant Behavior
D'Annunzio, Anthony – 1975
The purpose of this research study was to compare two kinds of perceptual training for kindergarteners. A control group was grouped for instruction in visual or auditory perception. The children whose weaker modality was auditory received an "Open Court" program which stressed the acquisition of phonetic skills. The Frostig-Horne program was given…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Learning Disabilities
Shantz, Carolyn Uhlinger – 1975
This paper reviews nine studies which report conflicting results in assessing the relationship between children's role-taking ability and communication skills. The studies included satisfy three criteria: (1) role-taking and communication efficiency are measured independently; (2) tasks used to measure the two skills are significantly different in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills
Gotts, Edward Earl; And Others – 1975
The role of language in conservation tasks and the development of the concept of conservation of quantity in young children are investigated in this study. A total of 50 children, aged 3.0 to 4.7 years, were divided into three groups according to age with a large number clustered around age 4.0 years. Children were randomly assigned to one of two…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)
Bernstein, Lewis; And Others – 1974
This manual outlines the instructional objectives for the children's television program "Sesame Street." The first section focuses on the child and his world with objectives related to: body part recognition; the child and his powers; reasoning and problem solving; emotions; career awareness; social groups and institutions; social…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Objectives, Conservation (Environment)
Bowd, Alan D. – 1975
This paper presents a study which investigated the relationship between field-dependence, perceptual egocentrism, and inductive reasoning in 53 kindergarten children. The general objective of the study was to assess the validity of the field-dependence measures in early childhood. Field-dependence was found to relate positively with perceptual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Egocentrism, Elementary Education
Anderson, Sarah M.; Quinn, Christine – 1974
The literature review reports research and theory focusing on the following topics: individual intellectual and perceptual characteristics of a child's learning style; an overview of ability and disability areas relative to the learner's specific cognitive processes; the use of standardized tests to evaluate cognitive processes and the usefulness…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Planning
McConnell, Freeman – 1969
A program for approximately 100 2- to 5-year-old culturally deprived Nashville, Tennessee, children was conducted in two community day-care centers. The children received instruction in groups of six or seven on a half-day basis for 5 days a week. Both language input and output were the focus of instruction, which was carried out through…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Experimental Programs
Rocky Mountain Special Education Instructional Materials Center, Greeley, CO. – 1968
Instructional materials which can be utilized for remediational use for the subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities are listed. Prepared by the Rocky Mountain Special Education Instructional Materials Center (RMSEIMC), the list represents appropriate materials available from that center. Commercial materials suitable for…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Educational Media
Gardner, Kathryn M. – 1972
A voluntary remedial reading and study skills class for students whose ability in these areas is insufficient to meet college demands is described. After the initial diagnostic pretesting is complete, each student works with a tutor or instructor to design a learning program suited to his individual needs, with six or seven half-hour units per…
Descriptors: Perceptual Development, Phonics, Reading Comprehension, Reading Development
Nicholson, Georgia
Intended for parents, the handbook describes characteristics of learning disabled (LD) children and offers activities that the child can perform in the home to build skill proficiency. It is explained that the activities are designed to relieve the parent and child of constant awareness of the disability, to avoid use of special materials and…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Emotional Adjustment, Exceptional Child Education, Family Role
Wartella, Ellen; Ettema, James S. – 1973
A child whose behavior reflects only perception of a stimulus and reaction to it is considered more perceptually bound than an adult whose behavior is also directed by theories, values, and ideas. Based on this analysis three testable hypotheses emrege: (1) stimulus complexity is a better predictor of attention for the more perceptually bound, (2)…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention Span, Behavior Theories, Children
Cobb, Russell L.; Stoltman, Joseph P. – 1973
This study examines the relationship between development of a child's ability to coordinate perspective and his ability to conceptualize spatial relations on a map. One hundred and four school children from inner city, urban fringe, and suburban schools, grades K-6, were administered a Test of Coordination of Perspectives and a Test of Map…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Educational Research
Handbook of Pupil Experiences for "High Challenge" Children - Those Children with Learning Problems.
Jones, Juanita; And Others – 1971
The guide is intended to familiarize primary grade teachers with the special learning characteristics of students with a high risk for a learning disability (those who are beginning to show an inability to work with symbols or to think abstractly) and to assist the teachers in the diagnosis of the specific nature of their learning problems.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Diagnosis, Exceptional Child Education, Guidelines
Schevill, Helen S. – 1971
This research investigated temporal ordering acuity in children, or the ability to perceive the first of an ordered pair of lights, or of a combined light and tone, when the interstimulus time interval within each pair became increasingly short in duration. Two group-related comparisons were made: (1) differences between slow-maturing and average…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Correlation