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Gordon, F. Robert; Flavell, John H. – Child Development, 1977
Children 3 1/2 and 5 years of age were tested for their intuitive knowledge of the psychological fact that one mental event may trigger or cue another related mental event. (JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts
Flavell, John H.; And Others – 1976
This paper describes two experiments in which children in grades 1, 3, and 5 were given three kinds of spatial perspective-taking problems to solve as quickly as they could: (1) C problems, solvable only by computation (that is, noting which features of a particular object array were closest to another observer in order to estimate how the array…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation