Improving African children's cognitive development through training.
According to Piaget, cognitive development can be realized with maturation and environmental experience, but he attached some significance to training as a means of facilitating cognitive development. This paper gives brief summaries of eight studies carried out in Africa clearly showing that cognitive development can be facilitated by training.
Mwamwenda
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University of Transkei, South Africa.
D000349:Africa; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003210:Concept Formation; D003906:Developing Countries; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D012931:Social Environment; D014796:Visual Perception