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Peer reviewedMurray, Frank B. – Journal of Psychology, 1980
Kindergarten and first-grade children conserved physical attributes of inanimate objects more easily than the physical attributes of animate objects. Significant conservation differences between various animate objects also were found. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)
PDF pending restorationMurray, Frank B. – 1971
The purpose of this study was to determine if an effective conservation training procedure would be one in which a child was confronted with opposing points of view. Subjects were 108 children with a mean age of 6.7 years. In two experiments, a group of three children (generally one nonconserver and two conservers) was required to respond with one…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Grade 1, Group Behavior
