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Download full textHarvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1966
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS MATERIAL ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF COGNITION. APPROXIMATELY 120 UNANNOTATED REFERENCES ARE PROVIDED TO DOCUMENTS DATING MAINLY FROM 1960 TO 1966. LISTINGS ARE PRIMARILY JOURNAL ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, AND RESEARCH REPORTS. SOME OF THE SUBJECT AREAS INCLUDED ARE (1) COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, (2) PIAGET'S THEORIES, (3)…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
SHINN, RIDGWAY F., JR. – 1965
TO ORGANIZE A NEW CURRICULUM FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES A 1-YEAR PROGRAM WAS INSTITUTED TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF AN INTEGRATED HISTORICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH. GROUPS AT THE FOURTH-, SIXTH-, AND EIGHTH-GRADE LEVELS WERE USED. THE OBJECTIVE DATA WERE GATHERED FROM THE IOWA WORK STUDY SKILLS AND THE SEQUENTIAL TESTS OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS,…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Curriculum Development, Geography, History
Goldsmith, Robert H. – 1980
Nutritional deficiencies and imbalances can influence learning directly or indirectly. Fatigue, boredom and low motivation may be the result of poor nutrition. Some vision problems, it is known, are related to deficiencies in vitamin A. A number of studies indicate that protein-caloric malnutrition affects intellectual and psychomotor development.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Drug Abuse, Educational Environment, Influences
Ghatala, Elizabeth S.; And Others – 1980
In an incidental memory task, second, sixth, and tenth-grade students performed three orientating tasks on different subsets of items in a list of common nouns. In one condition (EPA), children judged words on the Evaluative, Potency and Activity dimensions of the semantic differential. In another condition (EEE) children made phonetic judgments.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10, Grade 2
Drash, Philip W.; Stolberg, Arnold L. – 1977
This pilot study trained parents in behavior modification techniques and attempted to evaluate the impact of this training on the rate of cognitive, linguistic and social development in infants. A second goal was to identify significant areas in infant development which might be influenced by the teaching strategies used. Subjects were four…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Child Development, Developmental Programs, Early Experience
Miscione, John L.; And Others – 1977
This study investigated preschool children's understanding of the words "know" and "guess." Subjects for the study were 48 male and female preschool children ranging in age from 3.6 to 6.6 years. The children were divided into three age groups representing one year intervals. The task for the study involved a "guessing" game in which a colored…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Developmental Stages
Sternberg, Robert J. – 1979
Two influential theories of intellectual development are reviewed and analyzed: the psychometric framework, based on the factorial composition of intelligence, and the Piagetian model, based on assimilation and accomodation through four stages of intellectual development. A third concept is the componential theory of intelligence, based on…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Yahraes, Herbert – 1978
This brief report summarizes the findings and conclusions of studies concerning the relation between birth order and various aspects of personality and intellectual development. Major topics discussed are the relation between birth order of the child and: (1) the effects of sex and spacing between siblings on personality characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Birth Order, Conformity, Family Characteristics
Pearson, P. David; And Others – 1979
A series of three experiments with suburban elementary students tested the facilitative effect of metaphors on children's ability to understand and remember what they read. In the first study, sixth grade students read two unfamiliar passages and were able to recall metaphoric structures better than literal paraphrases of the same information. In…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development
Early, Margaret J. – 1968
Understanding ideas, drawing inferences, and recognizing the author's organization and purpose are teachable comprehension skills. Prereading discussions can stimulate students to think before reading, to survey the material, and to raise questions which focus attention while reading. A study guide can develop comprehension through careful…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comprehension, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Intellectual Development
Campbell, Frances; Ramey, Craig – 1977
This paper, part of an evaluation of the early intervention project at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, deals primarily with results of the Bayley Mental Development Index (MDI). The MDI was administered to experimental and control infants from lower socioeconomic background at 6, 12 and 18 months of age. Results (discussed in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Infants
Jund, Suzanne, Ed. – Wisconsin English Journal, 1978
The articles in this journal for reading teachers stress the importance of comprehension in the reading process. The topics discussed include the following: inferences and comprehension, the learning process involved in comprehension, the gifted student and reading comprehension, the cloze procedure, language clues to reading comprehension,…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Sedlak, Andrea J. – 1977
This paper presents a study of age differences in children's plan interpretations, interpretations of the interrelationship between actions, goals and outcomes. It is suggested that developmental differences exist which affect children's ability to recognize the necessity for internal and external consistency before labeling behaviors as…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Componential Analysis
Sexton, Thomas G.; Poling, Donald R. – 1973
This booklet cites evidence indicating that intelligence can be trained, given a physiologically normal student and an intensely persistant tutor. Methodologies for increasing mental efficiency have in common the principle of coordination of physical and mental processes, whether achieved by simple relaxation training, brain polarization, or…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Innovation, Educational Psychology, Educational Research
Lazarus, JoAnn M. – 1974
The purpose of the present study was to assess the overall effectiveness of a program of selected mathematical experiences for kindergarten children implemented through an inservice teacher education program. A total of 284 children from 10 public schools participated in the study. A booklet containing suggested teaching methods, special…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Early Childhood Education, Experimental Curriculum, Inservice Teacher Education
