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COGNITIVE CHANGES IN THE ADOLESCENT SLOW LEARNER
Author(s) -
Brown Roy I.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1972.tb01143.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , developmental psychology , adverse effect , cognitive development , psychiatry , medicine
SUMMARY This investigation tends Co support the Clarke hypothesis that subjects from “adverse” environments arc likely to show greater cognitive growth than persons from “less adverse” homes. However, the present study indicates that increments in cognitive growth are not necessarily dependent on removal from the “adverse” environment. Explanation may involve maturation, in the form of secondary and compensatory growth, and change from school to work environments. Because of large increments in intelligence in children from “less adverse” homes leaving comprehensive schools there may be reason to suggest that school environment may play an important though at present limited role in cognitive development.