Effects of treatment on conservation of continuous quantity tasks in young children

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Mary Juanita Pate Hardin (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
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Advisor
Helen Canaday

Abstract: The purpose of the experiment was to determine whether or not children five years of age could be taught to conserve continuous quantity. It was hypothesized that there would be no difference in conservation performance of children in the cognitive conflict group, the reversibility group, the cognitive conflict-reversibility group, and the control group on the conservation of continuous quantity pretest and posttest; that there would be no difference in conservation performance of children according to the conditions of visual screening on the conservation of continuous quantity pretest and posttest; and that there would be no difference in conservation performance of children according to race or sex on the conservation of continuous quantity pretest and posttest. The subjects were selected from all of the five-year old children attending kindergarten in the Hoke County Public School System, the Hoke County Head Start Program, and from children attending kindergarten in six schools in the Robeson County Public School System. The age range of the children was from 5 years 5 months to 5 years 11 months.

Additional Information

Publication
Dissertation
Language: English
Date: 1975
Subjects
Conservation (Psychology)
Cognition in children

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