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Union City Board of Education, NJ. – 1974
Project SEE (Specific Education of the Eye), a three-year old ESEA Title III funded program, is stated to be designed to train kindergarten and Grade 1 children in perceptual motor skills by developing visual perception through a series of sequenced visual exercises which the child analyzes, elucidates on, relates to, and replicates. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Instructional Materials, Perceptual Development, Sensory Experience
Curtice, Edith – 1971
This study considers recent research in human development and behavior, synthesizes commonalities across the research sources, and draws implications for art education in the classroom from kindergarten through grade 12. The research findings in cognitive development of Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner are examined, together with other sources…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Cognitive Development, Cultural Enrichment
MUKTARIAN, HERBERT H.; THOMPSON, GEORGE G. – 1966
PIAGET'S THEORETICAL FORMULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSERVATION OF CONTINUOUS QUANTITY WAS EXAMINED. CONTROL SUBJECTS IN EACH OF TWO AGE GROUPS (5 AND 6 YEARS) WERE GIVEN A COMPLEX TASK SITUATION THAT IS TYPICAL OF PIAGET'S WORK. THESE SUBJECTS WERE ALSO GIVEN ANOTHER TASK, A MEASURE OF CONSERVATION OF QUANTITY THAT IS INDEPENDENT OF PIAGET'S…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Mathematical Concepts
SIMCHES, RAPHAEL F.; AND OTHERS – 1966
MANY CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY HAVE VARIOUS PERCEPTUAL HANDICAPS WHICH RESULT FROM THE NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENT. TEACHING AIDS ARE DESCRIBED BY (1) NAME, (2) MATERIALS NEEDED IN CONSTRUCTION, (3) PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION, (4) EXPLANATION OF USE, AND (5) THE CONTRIBUTOR'S NAME. CATEGORIES OF AIDS INCLUDE (1) SENSORY DEVELOPMENT, (2) VERBAL…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Concept Formation, Educational Equipment, Educational Media
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Rosinski, Richard R.; And Others – Child Development, 1978
First, third, and fifth graders made judgments of the geographical slant of surfaces depicted in photographs while optical slant and postural orientation were manipulated. The results indicated the existence of a linear mechanism which compensates for the effect of postural inclination. (JMB)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Kinesthetic Perception, Perceptual Development, Research
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McIntyre, Curtis W.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1978
The span of apprehension (a measure of the amount of information processed simultaneously from a brief visual display) was studied in two experiments involving 40 normal and learning disabled boys (ages 6-11 years). (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Males
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Cox, M. V. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1978
Reports results of a study of the development of perspective-taking skills of 180 English children aged six through ten. Children first are able to represent the object nearest the observer, then before-behind relationships, and subsequently left-right relationships between objects. Questions Piagetian conclusions that perspective-taking ability…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Elementary School Students, Perceptual Development
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Zelniker, Tamar; And Others – Child Development, 1977
This study examined the hypothesis that differences in performance of impulsive and reflective children on the "20 questions" test are due to individual differences in preferred perceptual processing strategy rather than in cognitive maturity of problem-solving strategy. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary School Students, Perceptual Development
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Pipp, Sandra L.; Haith, Marshall M. – Child Development, 1977
Results showed that 2- and 3-dimensional forms affected 4- and 8-week-old infant visual behavior differently. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Infant Behavior, Infants, Perceptual Development
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Pomerantz, Susan; House, William – Journal of Psychology, 1977
Finds that liberated women are less dependent than traditional women on social skills for their personal fulfillment, and that liberated women base their self-esteem to a greater extent on abilities and interests. (RL)
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Interests, Interpersonal Competence
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Murphy, Michael – Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1977
The author has written a metaphysical sports fantasy and completed a novel which explores evolutionary transformations of the mind and body. Now he is working on a long-term research project exploring radical bodily transformations occurring in various fields of human experience. This article on sport is part of that project. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Athletics, Human Development, Humanism, Perceptual Development
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Lavine, Linda Olshina – Developmental Psychology, 1977
Investigated the development of perceptual differentiation of writing in 45 preschool children. Subjects were asked to label graphic displays varying in features shared with Roman letters and with letter strings. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Letters (Alphabet), Orthographic Symbols, Perceptual Development, Preschool Children
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Friedman, Judith B.; Gillooley, William B. – Journal of Special Education, 1977
Investigated was the development of the process whereby 63 deaf children (9-14 years old) attended to the orthographic structure of tachistoscopically presented verbal materials. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Deafness, Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments
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Rose, Susan Ann – Child Development, 1977
Two studies: (1) assessed the infant's ability to perceive differences between two-dimensional and three-dimensional stimuli; and (2) tested the infants' ability to transfer responses across dimensions. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Eye Fixations, Infants, Perceptual Development
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Jones-Molfese, Victoria J. – Child Development, 1977
Examined length of fixation time responses of neonates to pairs of red, blue, and green acetate stimuli. (Author)
Descriptors: Color, Eye Fixations, Infants, Neonates
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