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ERIC Number: EJ306043
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Individual Differences in Cognitive Synthesis: An M-Capacity Analysis.
Bell, Terece Stovall; Kee, Daniel W.
Contemporary Educational Psychology, v9 n4 p323-32 Oct 1984
To evaluate individual differences in children's propensity to demonstrate cognitive synthesis, six-year-olds were asked to demonstrate the meaning of various sentences constructed of logographs, which were arranged in either a meaningful or scrambled order. Overall, synthesizers had a larger attentional reserve, or M-capacity, than non-synthesizers. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Recall (Psychology), Responses
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cognitive Synthesis; M Capacity
Note: Portions of this study were presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (March 1981).