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Peer reviewedWiner, Gerald A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Five studies examined adults' responses to weight conservation questions which were constructed to give subjects a choice of two incorrect answers. The results showed that adults (1) acquiesced to the misleading implications of the questions; and (2) exhibited greater nonconservation in response to questions about the body than about external…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, Developmental Tasks, Human Body
Peer revieweddeVilliers, Peter A.; deVilliers, Jill G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Investigates the development and production of spatial deictic terms ("this/that", "here/there", "my/your") in the context of a hide-and-seek game using preschool children and college age adults. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
