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The Acquisition of Conservation of Weight by Visually Impaired Children
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Brekke, Beverly; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1974
A modified version of Furth's 13-step conservation of weight problem was administered to 72 legally blind children, 6-14 years of age. A total of 46 of the subjects resided in institutions for the blind, and 26 subjects lived in a family situation. Both the sighted group and the blind group living at home conserved more often than the…
Descriptors: Blindness, Conservation (Concept), Family Environment, Handicapped Children
Reversibility Preceding Conservation and Reading Readiness
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Brekke, Beverly; Williams, John D. – Journal of Psychology, 1975
Identifies the concept of reversibility (an awareness of the prior situation after a transformation of shape) as an area of difficulty in the Piagetian concept of transitional conservation. (RB)
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Primary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness
Conservation of Weight with the Emotionally Disturbed
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Brekke, Beverly; Williams, John D. – Journal of Educational Research, 1975
The article describes research which attempted to discover whether emotionally disturbed children functioned at Piagetian levels of abstract thought similar to normal children. (CD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept)
Conservation of Weight with Social Deviants
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Brekke, Beverly; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1977
Presents a study of the development of conservation of weight among socially deviant adolescents. (BD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Cognitive Development
Conservation of Weight With the Gifted
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Brekke, Beverly; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1976
This study investigated the relationship between giftedness and conservation of weight based on Piaget's theory of intelligence. A total of 56 gifted and 72 nongifted children (ages 114-150 months) were tested on a series of tasks designed to measure conservation of weight. (MS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Elementary Secondary Education, Experimental Psychology
Conservation and Reading Achievement of Second Grade Bilingual American Indian Children
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Brekke, Beverly; Williams, John D. – Journal of Psychology, 1974
The results of this study question the usefulness of the Draw-A-Man Test as a measure of intelligence for the bilingual child. (TO)
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingual Students, Conservation (Concept), Disadvantaged Youth
Conservation of Weight With the Mentally Retarded
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Brekke, Beverly; Williams, John D. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1974
Compared institutionalized and public school retardates to normal elementary and high school students at several mental age levels on three conservation of weight tasks. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Conservation (Concept)
Conservation of Weight with the Motorically Handicapped
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Brekke, Beverly; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1975
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Exceptional Child Research
Conservation of Senegalese Youth and Its Psycho-Social Correlates.
Brekke, Beverly; Williams, John – 1980
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to investigate the appropriateness of Piagetian tasks for a comparative assessment of the cognitive development of rural and semi-urban Senegalese youth; and (2) to determine relationships among selected social and environmental factors affecting Senegalese youth. Fifty semi-urban and 50 rural area…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis