Two studies using the concepts and research techniques of J. Piaget were conducted to compare cognitive processes in 45 blind children (2-to-12-years-old) and a random sample of sighted children. (SB)

This paper discusses the use of mediated learning which involves training given to other humans by an experienced adult who frames, selects, focuses and feeds back environmental experiences in such a manner as to create learning situations. The authors' program utilizing such an approach is described. (Author/EJT)

This paper describes the Inventory of Piaget's Developmental Tasks, summarizes the data on its reliability and validity, comments on its usefulness as a quick, paper-pencil test which introductory chemistry instructors might use for assessing cognitive development, and presents data showing how introductory chemistry students scored on it.…

Human infants are predisposed to organize their experience in terms of certain concepts (natural) and not others (unnatural). Three formal, necessary conditions on the naturalness of concepts are offered. The conditions attempt to link the problem of naturalness to principled distinctions between sense vs nonsense, simplicity vs complexity, and…

The study involving 70 deaf, 70 partially hearing, and 70 hearing children (10-16 years old) investigated the effect of lack of verbal language on development of deaf children's cognitive abilities. (SBH)

Young children's thinking is subject to constraints which interfere with instruction, and a developmental approach may be useful in minimizing the detrimental effects of these constraints. The approach is particularly beneficial to handicapped children, those who require remedial work, and adults with inadequate working memory for the specific…

Comments on a recent article by DeLuca on electronic "measurement of logical thinking" questioning four aspects of the article. DeLuca responds to the criticism on those four aspects in question. (GA)

Undergraduates discussed a moral issue with a confederate who had the same opinion (no controversy) or opposite opinion (controversy) within either a cooperative or a competitive context. Subjects in the controversy conditions indicated more conceptual conflict, engaged in more information seeking, and were more accurate in taking the cognitive…

Longitudinal data on six eye-hand coordination tasks for 25 children aged five and one-half through eight and one-half years were factor analyzed in terms of functional and structural cognitive orientation. (Author)

The article describes programs for the hearing impaired, visually impaired, mentally retarded, behavior disordered, orthopedically handicapped, speech handicapped, and learning disabled in which the arts have been used to enhance cognitive growth. (SBH)

Investigates the effects of high school chemistry experiences on the use of Piaget's operative structures. Reports that students who took chemistry scored higher than those who did not on a test of Piaget's operative comprehension. (GA)

Offers a set of principles that should govern the composition of secondary school social studies curriculum as related to the developing and changing forms of cognition in secondary students. Discusses the "romantic" and "philosophic" stages of the secondary student's development and outlines curriculum implications for each stage. (KC)

Evaluates college students' understanding of chemistry as operationally defined by Bloom. The Test of Higher Cognitive Learning in Chemistry was administered to 488 students upon completion of a one-semester course in general chemistry. Significant differences were found among student mean scores at various cognitive levels. (HM)

Examples are given illustrating a facet of early learning involving insights into abstract thinking. Several learning theories examined fail to account for this phenomenon. (MP)

Investigated was whether reading achievement could be increased by exposure to logical and perceptual tasks as found in science process activities. (MP)