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Moore, Brandy D.; Brooks, Patricia J.; Rabin, Laura A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Two main theoretical constructs seek to describe the elaborated sense of time that may be a uniquely human attribute: diachronic thinking (the ability to think about the past and use that information to predict future events) and event ordering (the ability to sequence events in temporal order). Researchers utilize various tasks to measure the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Thinking Skills, Serial Ordering, Time Perspective
JOHNSON, LINDA J.; RICCIUTI, HENRY D. – 1965
A MAIN PROBLEM ARISING IN THE STUDY OF CATEGORIZING BEHAVIOR IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN BY MEANS OF SORTING PROCEDURES WAS THAT PERFORMANCE APPEARED TO BE VERY MUCH A FUNCTION OF THE CHILD'S COMPREHENSION OF THE PARTICULAR VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS EMPLOYED BY THE EXPERIMENTER IN PRESENTING THE TASK. THE SPECIFIC AIMS OF THE FIRST STUDY WERE TO INVESTIGATE…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Classification, Developmental Tasks