TY - JOUR
T1 - The child's concept of proportionality
T2 - A re-examination
AU - Nelson, Katherine J.
AU - Zelniker, Tamar
AU - Jeffrey, Wendell E.
N1 - Funding Information:
‘This work was supported in part by USPHS Grant MH-6639 We are grateful to Mr. H. Huieing, Principal of Washington Beach for making the children in this study available to ‘Now at Yale University.
PY - 1969/10
Y1 - 1969/10
N2 - A partial replication and extension of Bruner and Kenney's (1966) study of the concept of proportionality was run with 5- and 7-year-old children. Experimental Ss were given preliminary training to facilitate their understanding of the task and their attention to the relevant cues. Training effectively altered the performance of both the 7- and 5-year-old E groups although only the older group was shown to possess the proportionality concept as measured by the criterion task. The results demonstrated the importance of avoiding verbal ambiguity in the investigation of nonverbal cognitive competence.
AB - A partial replication and extension of Bruner and Kenney's (1966) study of the concept of proportionality was run with 5- and 7-year-old children. Experimental Ss were given preliminary training to facilitate their understanding of the task and their attention to the relevant cues. Training effectively altered the performance of both the 7- and 5-year-old E groups although only the older group was shown to possess the proportionality concept as measured by the criterion task. The results demonstrated the importance of avoiding verbal ambiguity in the investigation of nonverbal cognitive competence.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-0965(69)90100-3
DO - 10.1016/0022-0965(69)90100-3
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AN - SCOPUS:0014581155
VL - 8
SP - 256
EP - 262
JO - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
SN - 0022-0965
IS - 2
ER -