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Piwowar, Deanna; King, Ethel M. – Elem Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Stauffer, Russell G. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Intellectual Development, Language Experience Approach, Psychological Characteristics
Senn, Milton J. E. – Children, 1969
Condensed from the first Evangeline Burgess Memorial Lecture presented at Pacific Oaks College and Children's School, Pasadena, Calif., April 3, 1968.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives, Intellectual Development, Preschool Education
Cohen, Patricia; And Others – 1979
Fifteen behavioral indices derived from information gathered by the National Center for Health Statistics Health Examination Surveys Cycle II (with a sample of 7,119 six to eleven year old children) and III (with a sample of 6,768 twelve to seventeen year old children) were investigated for differences related to the age of the mother of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Behavior Development, Disabilities
MCGUIRE, CARSON; ROWLAND, TOM – 1966
THE CONTRIBUTION MADE BY PIAGET TO KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IS SUMMARIZED. PIAGET'S INFLUENCE ON BERLYNE AND OTHER PSYCHOLOGISTS, THE RESEARCH METHODS USED BY PIAGET, AND THE CONCEPTS HE FORMULATED ARE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED. THE GOAL OF HIS RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT GENEVA IS IDENTIFIED AS THE DISCOVERY OF THE SUCCESSIVE STAGES IN THE…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Concept Formation, Intellectual Development
FURTH, HANS G. – 1966
BASED ON EXPERIMENTATION EXAMINING THE THINKING CAPACITIES OF DEAF CHILDREN, THIS PAPER REPORTS FINDINGS ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP OF ABILITY TO LINGUISTIC EXPERIENCE. PERFORMANCE OF DEAF CHILDREN ON TASKS INVOLVING CONCEPT FORMATION AND LOGICAL THINKING WAS FOUND TO BE COMPARABLE TO THAT OF MATCHED HEARING SUBJECTS WHEN VERBALIZATION WAS NOT…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Deafness, Disadvantaged
SMILANSKY, M. – 1964
ELEVEN GENERALIZATIONS FROM THE OUTCOMES OF STUDIES AND EXPERIMENTS CARRIED OUT BY THE SZOLD INSTITUTE OVER A PERIOD OF 2 YEARS WERE PRESENTED. THE FIRST NEGATED THE PREMISES OF A LIMITED POOL OF ABILITY AND OF THE STABILITY OF IQ. TABLES DEMONSTRATED THE POSSIBILITY OF RAISING THE IQ OF CULTURALLY DEPRIVED CHILDREN BY AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 20…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conferences, Disadvantaged, Intellectual Development
Goldman, Susan R. – 1979
This study investigates age differences in children's semantic expectations regarding causal relations in stories about three realistic goal situations (being friendly, getting a dog, and doing chores). Twenty children at each of three age levels (ages 6, 9, and 12) were asked to produce stories and answer probe questions about wanting and not…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Comprehension, Expectation
Finder, Morris – 1969
Rather than being viewed as a reading skill, comprehension is viewed as inferring the task of the writer or as discerning the ends and means of a discourse. Inferring the writer's task is to reason backwards from the product to the questions with which he may have started. Discerning ends and means is to view what is described, argued, or…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Evaluation Criteria, Intellectual Development, Reading Comprehension
Labouvie-Vief, Gisela – 1973
The relationship between learning ability and intelligence has continually been a focus of theory and research. It is argued in this paper that the inconclusive results of studies relating individual differences variables such as intellectual abilities to learning are due to a too pragmatic, theoretical orientation. Theoretical models explicating…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Individual Differences, Intellectual Development, Intelligence
Norris, Carole J. – 1976
The theories and practices of Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori are outlined in relation to the teaching of beginning reading. Parallels are drawn between the two authors' views of the nature of intelligence and of motivation, leading to the conclusion that there may be danger of overemphasizing reading at the expense of other areas of the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development
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Labouvie-Vief, Gisela; Gonda, Judith N. – Journal of Gerontology, 1976
Reduced intellectual performance in the elderly was conceptualized as an experiential dificit that can be reversed by training relevant component skills. Female elderly subjects (N=60) participated in three phases of the experiment: Training, Immediate Posttest, and Delayed Posttest. Training was geared at strengthening covert self-monitoring…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cognitive Ability, Intellectual Development, Older Adults
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Miscione, John L.; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Fundamental Concepts, Intellectual Development
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Freehill, Maurice F. – Roeper Review: A Journal on Gifted Children Education, 1978
The article reviews some of the conditions that might counteract decline in the intellectual development of gifted children and adolescents. (DLS)
Descriptors: Family Influence, Gifted, Intellectual Development, Negative Attitudes
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Sailor, Dorothy H. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1978
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Development
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