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Peer reviewedCameron, Roy – Child Development, 1984
Relates the problem-solving behavior of second, fourth, and sixth graders to conceptual tempo. Correlations with indices of strategic and efficient performance on a pattern-matching task confirmed that reflectives are more strategic than impulsives. A task-analysis identified the sources of inefficiency for each child and related these sources to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo
Peer reviewedSugarman, Susan – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Forty toddlers, 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 years of age, and 8 adults, searched for stickers that were hidden underneath two discretely different classes of objects embedded in arrays containing several classes. Study results suggest that the children appear to have been attempting to determine which kinds of choices were the wrong ones. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedFrye, Douglas; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates the problem young children have in constructing diagonals, noting that, on the whole, they can not make diagonals in the horizontal/vertical configuration. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Difficulty Level
Download full textPea, Roy D.; Hawkins, Jan – 1984
This paper provides a detailed empirical account of the performances of 8- to 9-year-olds and 11- to 12-year-olds on a chore-scheduling task developed to assess the dynamics of planning processes. In developing the planning task for revealing different levels of planning proficiency, five critical aspects of planning were taken into account: the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Critical Path Method
Peer reviewedSmeets, Paul M.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1988
Investigates to what extent discrimination learning through time delay of multistimulus, distinctive-feature prompts is a function of the inclusion and configuration of the S-prompt. Results of two experiments with children aged four and five indicate that most subjects did not learn the task assigned unless two distinctive-feature prompts were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Cues, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedChao, Chia-Chen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Describes four experiments conducted among adults and 3- to 7-year-olds to validate a task analysis that indicates that the equality, group enhancement, and superiority social decisions require a greater information processing load than the altruism, rivalry, and individualism social decisions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Kraus, Marcy L. – 1984
The effects of age, task, and egocentric responding on visual-spatial perspective taking were studied among 41 preschool children between 3.0 and 5.9 years of age. Children were individually administered three perspective-taking measures: the upside-down/right-side-up task, a block task, and a picture box task, all previously described in the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Egocentrism
