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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Development of Mental Processing: Efficiency, Working Memory, and Thinking.
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Demetriou, Andreas; Christou, Constantinos; Spanoudis, George; Platsidou, Maria – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2002
Examined, over 1 year, relations between information processing efficiency, working memory, and problem solving in sample of 8-, 10-, 12-, and 14-year-olds. Identified three-stratus hierarchy with individual dimensions organized in three constructs: processing efficiency, working memory, and problem solving. Found that individual dimensions were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
The Architecture and Dynamics of Developing Mind: Experiential Structuralism as a Frame for Unifying Cognitive Developmental Theories.
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Demetriou, Andreas; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1993
Presents a theory of cognitive development that postulates a general cognitive processing system, a hypercognitive system governing self-regulation, and specialized structural systems responsible for processing different reality domains. Suggests five principles that serve as organizational pivots of developing cognition. Reports the results of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Meta-Piagetian Solutions to Epistemological Problems.
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Demetriou, Andreas; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1993
Attempts to clarify issues related to three problems in neo-Piagetian theory, namely, the problems of developmental domains; reflective abstraction, or hypercognition; and representation, or knowledge. Concerning domains, answers three questions: (1) What is a domain?; (2) How are domains identified?; and (3) What happens to domains as they…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Epistemology