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PERCEPTUAL, REPRESENTATIONAL AND CONCEPTUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Author(s) -
SATTERLY DAVID
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1968.tb01985.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , developmental psychology , reading (process) , vocabulary , cognitive psychology , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience
S ummary . The performances of 200 children aged 7–11 years were investigated in tests of arithmetic, vocabulary and reading, visual and haptic perceptual tasks and drawing and spatial tests. Small groups of children expressing a preference for ‘analytic’ and ‘synthetic’ attitudes were identified and their performances compared in perceptual, representational and conceptual variables to investigate the hypothesis of consistency across the operations. Differences between the scores of boys and girls, and older and younger pupils in the entire sample were also studied, and relationships between the variables investigated through correlational and factorial studies.