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Young Children's Knowledge about Thinking.
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Flavell, John H.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1995
Reports results of 14 studies on children's knowledge about thinking. Suggests that preschoolers appear to know that thinking is an internal mental activity that can refer to real or imaginary objects or events. However, preschoolers are poor at determining when a person is and is not thinking. This shortcoming is considerably less evident in…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
The Development of Comprehension Monitoring and Knowledge about Communication.
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Flavell, John H.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1981
The two studies described in this monograph were designed to generate new ideas about the development of children's metacommunicative understanding and comprehension-monitoring abilities. Older subjects were more likely than younger subjects to detect inadequacies in communication; furthermore, younger children responded differently to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Communication Problems, Communication Research
A Developmental Study of Intelligent Retrieval.
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Keniston, Allen H.; Flavell, John H. – Child Development, 1979
Among elementary, junior high, and college students, intelligent retrieval methods for recalling 20 letters of the alphabet consisted either of mentally proceeding through the alphabet from the onset and writing down each previously written letter as encountered and recognized, or else first rote recalling some letters and then switching to the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
Solving Spatial Perspective-Taking Problems by Rule versus Computation: A Developmental Study.
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Flavell, John H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
A developmental study of elementary school children's use of rule v computation in solving spacial perspective-taking problems. (CM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Child Development, Elementary Education
The Development of Children's Understanding of the Appearance-Reality Distinction between How People Look and What They Are Really Like.
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Flavell, John H.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1992
Younger preschoolers had significantly more difficulty than older ones in making an appearance-reality distinction between a person's apparent character, as indicated by his or her facial expression, and the person's real character, as evidenced by his or her behavior. (BB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Facial Expressions
Solving Spatial Perspective-Taking Problems by Rule vs. Computation: A Developmental Study.
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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
The Development of Role-Taking and Communication Skills in Children.
Flavell, John H.; And Others – 1968
The purpose of this book is to report and interpret a group of research studies relating to social-cognitive development in early childhood through adolescence. Adults interpret the covert psychological properties of other people, their abilities, knowledge, motives, attitudes, perceptions, and intentions relevant to concrete situations. An infant…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research
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