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ERIC Number: EJ191000
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1978
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Logical Operations and Metaphor Interpretations: A Piagetian Model.
Cometa, Michael S.; Eson, Morris E.
Child Development, v49 n3 p649-59 Sep 1978, Sep78
A group of 60 children from grades K, 1, 3, 4, and 8 were assessed via a battery of Piagetian tasks to determine their stages of cognitive development. They were then asked to interpret a number of metaphors ranging in frequency of occurrence in adult speech from common to rare. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Logical Thinking, Metaphors, Models, Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Piaget (Jean)