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Peer reviewedChemical and Engineering News, 1977
Describes a program being conducted within the chemistry department of Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana, to improve the abstract reasoning abilities of freshmen science majors. The project is based upon the philosophy developed by Jean Piaget. (SL)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Chemistry, Cognitive Development, College Science
Peer reviewedHollos, Marida; Cowan, Philip A. – Child Development, 1973
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Behavior, Classification, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedBart, William M. – Journal of Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedSilliphant, Virginia M. – Psychology in the Schools, 1983
Compared performance of kindergarten children (N=52) on reasoning, visual-motor integration, and verbal development to achievement scores in kindergarten, second grade, and third grade. Results showed relationships between reasoning in kindergarten and achievement on two tests in second grade, but not between kindergarten visual-motor integration…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedBarrouillet, Pierre; Markovits, Henry; Quinn, Stephane – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002
Tested with adolescents and adults two predictions from Markovits and Barrouillet's developmental model of conditional reasoning related to the effects of the association between antecedent and consequent terms and the formulation of the minor premise on uncertainty responses. Found results consistent with hypotheses and indicating importance of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences
Anderson, Lorraine Kvistberg – 1990
A research project explored the idea that reasoning develops in distinct phases of thinking as individuals journey from simplistic learning of facts to highly proficient consequence predicting of integrated relationships. These results were derived from a study that examined the thinking processes and problem-solving actions of 13 students and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Higher Education
Greene, Anita-Louise – 1983
Sixty adolescents, stratified by sex and grade level (i.e., 9th, 12th, and college sophomore) participated in an examination of Piaget's suggestion that the formal operations are prerequisite to the development of political idealism, abstract thought and future time perspective in adolescence. Analysis of the cognition data revealed that the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Correlation
Peer reviewedBarratt, Barnaby B. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
This study investigated the emergence of combinatorial competence in early adolescence and the effectiveness of a programmed discovery training procedure. Significant increases in combinatorial skill with age were shown; it was found that the expression of this skill was significantly facilitated if problems involved concrete material of low…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level
Download full textBattaglini, Dennis J.; Schenkat, Randolph J. – 1987
Intended for college instructors interested in promoting and developing intellectual abilities in their students, this publication details the Perry and Toulmin models of cognitive development. The first section explains the Perry model of dualistic students, who are comfortable in a framework of absolute knowledge and unquestionable right and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style
Handelsman, Mitchell M. – 1984
A technique to teach cognitive skills to directly facilitate abstract and rational thinking is described. Based on George Kelly's theory of personal constructs, his Role Construct Repertory Test has students construe similarities and differences among important course concepts rather than provide individual definitions or examples of those…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, College Students
Belz, Helene F. – 1988
Systematic observations of thousands of high school students in the California Mentally Gifted Minors/Gifted and Talented Education programs identified five principles underlying the development of high level thinking skills in this population: (1) Exceptional performance on any criterion requires mutually reinforcing antecedents, the effects of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
John, Martha Tyler – 1985
Because understanding pictures is a significant aid to readers, this paper explores research on picture interpretation. The paper describes the complexity of the process and states that the ability to interpret pictures seems to proceed from the simple to the complex: from concrete experiences with pictures to the abstract interpretation of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Illustrations, Interpretive Skills
Boulanger, F. David – 1978
This document reorts on an educational research study involving 75 eighth-grade students to determine the effects of problem solving instruction on the ability of students to apply proportional reasoning in problem situations. Results suggest that changes in basic reasoning skills such as proportional reasoning are long term, highly dependent on…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Instruction
Peer reviewedChapman, Robert H. – Child Development, 1975
Children in grades 1, 3, and 5 and college students were given a variety of judgment tasks contrasting the comparison of quantity with the comparison of proportions to determine whether the understanding of proportions develops before formal operations. Results indicated that the comprehension of abstract relations requires formal operations.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, College Students, Concept Formation
BLANK, MARION – 1967
THE MOST DISABLING HANDICAP OF YOUNG CHILDREN FROM DEPRIVED SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS IS THEIR DIFFICULTY IN USING LANGUAGE ABSTRACTLY. IN THIS STUDY, THEREFORE, IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT IF AN EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM WAS LIMITED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABSTRACT LANGUAGE, THEN NOT ONLY LANGUAGE, BUT MANY OTHER ASPECTS OF THINKING WOULD BE…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Testing
