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McCarthy, Jackie; Harvey, Janadene L. – 1970
The social studies curriculum guide for kindergarteners is based upon the idea that thinking is sequentially learned and developed. The aim of the program is to help children develop the tools of reasoning. Emphasis is on the introduction of cognitive tasks involving concept formation and requiring students to list, group, identify, and label…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Activity Units, Cognitive Objectives, Concept Teaching
Lipman, Matthew; And Others – 1977
This handbook for educators and parents discusses the need to include philosophy in the elementary classroom. The authors point out that as a question-raising discipline, philosophy is appropriate to guide children's natural inquisitiveness through the educational process. It encourages intellectual resourcefulness and flexibility which can enable…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Children
van Kuyk, Jef J. – 1999
A 3-year experiment evaluated the effectiveness of the Pyramid program, an educational program for young children from deprived situations and based on two concepts: psychological nearness (principles of attachment theory) and psychological distance (derived from developmental distancing, or the growing ability of a child to comprehend that an…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
deSilva, W. A. – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1978
The way students, aged 12 through 16, ascribed meaning to coded words representing historical terms, based on contextual clues, was studied. Intelligence, grammatical ability, cultural background, and interest in history were also examined. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Concept Formation, Context Clues
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Lassiter, G. Daniel; And Others – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1996
Five studies examined the effect of dysphoric mood on perceivers' subjective unitization of an observed other's ongoing behavior into discrete meaningful actions. Dysphoria generally reduced unitization rate (i.e., number of actions discriminated). Additional evidence indicates this reduction results from failure to initiate a higher (more…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Behavior
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Cummins, Denise Dellarosa; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1988
Two experiments assessed whether children's difficulty with word problems can be attributed to difficulty in comprehending abstract or ambiguous language. The subjects were 38 first-, 36 second-, and 36 third-graders. The resulting theory of arithmetic word problem solving may represent a theoretical problem-solving model. (TJH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Ambiguity, Arithmetic, Computer Simulation
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Hudak, Mary A.; Anderson, David E. – Teaching of Psychology, 1990
Studies 94 undergraduate students in introductory statistics and computer science courses. Applies Formal Operations Reasoning Test (FORT) and Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Finds that substantial numbers of students have not achieved the formal operation level of cognitive maturity. Emphasizes need to examine students learning style and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Ability
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Oldfield, Bernarde J. – Mathematics in School, 1991
The use of strategies is an important part of mathematical thinking. Presented are several games that help develop the reasoning strategies of hypothesis making and testing, proving and disproving, looking for patterns, and simplifying a difficult task. (MDH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algebra, Class Activities, Educational Games
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Fox, Eric J.; Sullivan, Howard J. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare traditional classification training for a set of abstract concepts with multiple-relations training consisting of inference practice and the use of a content diagram. To examine this, 200 undergraduate and graduate psychology students completed a Web-based tutorial covering the abstract concepts of a…
Descriptors: Classification, Psychology, Internet, Higher Education
Zazkis, Rina; Campbell, Stephen – 1994
This study contributes to a growing body of research on the development of elementary teacher's content knowledge of mathematics. Individual clinical interviews were conducted with preservice elementary teachers (N=21) enrolled in a professional development course called "Foundations of Mathematics for Teachers." An instrument that…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
Lavoie, Derreck R. – 1991
Cognitive science research offers hope for the development of innovative science teaching strategies that facilitate the development of optimally interconnected procedural and declarative knowledge networks. Improving students' neural networks should improve their abilities to think critically, reason logically, learn more efficiently, and solve…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking
Johnson, Tony W. – 1984
This document describes curriculum and resources designed to foster and expand the philosophical thinking of elementary and middle school students. The booklet begins with excerpts from and a discussion of Matthew Lipman's novel "Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery," written to help elementary and middle school students discover both formal…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Dialogs (Language)
Northrop, Lois C. – 1977
The Professional and Administrative Career Examination measures judgment ability using comprehension and logical order of events item types. Since the verbal component of comprehension items is high, and since these items are extremely difficult to write and document, a search was conducted for a simpler item type for assessing judgment. Three…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Administrators, Comprehension, Decision Making Skills
Wax, Murray L.; Luhman, Reid A. – 1974
The study examined the relation of language use and logical thought to social experience with both age and class held constant. The primary assumptions under study were: that the logic of symbolic grouping was highly sensitive to a child's experience with the objects to which that logic was applied; that the existence of diglossia in a bilingual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes
Jensen, Arthur R. – 1968
Discussed are the theoretical explanations of the observation that low intelligence quotient (IQ), low socioeconomic status children appear to be brighter in certain ways than low IQ middle class youngsters. The two different theories on IQ as a function of socioeconomic status--environmental or cultural vs. genetically determined biological…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Concept Formation, Culture Fair Tests
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