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Individual Differences in the Development of Formal Reasoning
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Cloutier, Richard; Goldschmid, Marcel L. – Child Development, 1976
This study investigated the relationship between the attainment of a Piagetian formal operational concept (proportion) and personal characteristics in 117 children 10 to 12 years old. (SB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Individual Characteristics
Early Comprehension of Mental Verbs: Think and Know
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Johnson, Carl Nils; Maratsos, Michael P. – Child Development, 1977
Examines preschool children's comprehension of the differing implications of the verbs "think" and "know". Results indicated that 4-year-olds, but not 3-year-olds, understood the differences between the terms. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Child Language, Preschool Children
Operativity and Reversibility in Children's Understanding of Pictorial Sequences.
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Schmidt, Constance R.; Paris, Scott G. – Child Development, 1978
The role of reversibility in children's comprehension and memory for sequences of pictures was investigated for children in preschool, kindergarten, and first and second grades. Bidirectionality in the ability to remember and infer antecedents and consequences was assessed. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Memory
Evidence for Preschoolers' Understanding of Causal Direction in Extended Causal Sequences
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Kun, Anna – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development
The Development of Inferential Comprehension
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Paris, Scott G.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Children's ability to infer consequences from sentences automatically was assessed in two cued recall experiments. Seven- and eight-year-old children and adults served as subjects. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Comprehension
Children's Interpretation and Appreciation of Smiles
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Malgady, Robert G. – Child Development, 1977
Presents a developmental study of children's understanding and appreciation of figurative language. Results replicated previous findings that kindergarten children are capable of interpreting figurative language whereas appreciation appears to require increased cognitive sophistication. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
The Development of Children's Comprehension of Causal Direction
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Kuhn, Deanna; Phelps, Henry – Child Development, 1976
The development of children's comprehension of cause and effect relationships was studied in 68 kindergarten, first grade, and second grade children. (BRT)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension