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Conservation of Mass, Weight, and Volume in Yoruba Adolescents.
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Bliss, Beverly; Docherty, Edward M. – Child Study Journal, 1979
Descriptors: Adolescents, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Elementary Secondary Education
Social Change and Equilibration of Cognitive Structures: The Role of Schooling and Urbanisation.
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Lalo, A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1989
Investigated the role of schooling and urbanization on the acquisition of conservation of physical quantities in 384 Senagalese children of 7, 9, 11, and 13 years. Results revealed functional divergences in the acquisition of physical quantities. (RJC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept)
Body Parts as Numerals: A Developmental Analysis of Numeration among the Oksapmin in Papua New Guinea.
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Saxe, Geoffrey B. – Child Development, 1981
Two studies indicate that Oksapmin children progress from premediational to mediational phases in their use of body parts to compare and reproduce number and that this change generally occurs prior to the development of concepts of number conservation. A third study shows that this general change is manifested in culturally specific ways.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Computation
The Question of Similar Sequence in Development across Cultures and the Method of Critical Exploration.
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Lister, Caroline; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
Nonretarded (NR) and educable mentally retarded (EMR) 6- to 19-year-old children in Istanbul, Turkey, completed conservation tasks. Found a similarity in the developmental progression of conservation concepts between the two groups and between these groups and groups of NR and EMR children in England as reported in previous studies. (BC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comparative Analysis, Conservation (Concept)
Conservations and Decalage.
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Bovet, Magali C.; And Others – Human Development, 1982
Several experiments with 8- to 9-year-old children are reported to demonstrate that "decalage" observed between success in problems of conservation of weight, volume, and density is due to the different task situation as presented by Piaget and Inhelder. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes
Similarity and Difference in the Cognitive Development of Down's Syndrome, Other Retarded, and Non-retarded Children.
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Lister, C. M.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1988
Investigates the extent of similarity in the sequence of development of concepts in children with Down's Syndrome, children with other forms of retardation, and nonretarded children. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Conservation of Senegalese Youth and Its Psycho-Social Correlates.
Brekke, Beverly; Williams, John – 1980
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to investigate the appropriateness of Piagetian tasks for a comparative assessment of the cognitive development of rural and semi-urban Senegalese youth; and (2) to determine relationships among selected social and environmental factors affecting Senegalese youth. Fifty semi-urban and 50 rural area…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
How Children Think. Unit for Child Studies. Selected Papers Number 30.
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Phillips, Shelley – 1984
In four parts, this discussion describes characteristics of the thought of infants, preschool children, primary school students, and adolescents. Topics briefly addressed in part I, on the thought processes/capabilities of babies, concern sensorimotor thought without abstraction, the importance of physical exploration, the development of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Association (Psychology), Classification, Cognitive Ability