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Are Learning Disabled Children More Impulsive? A Comparison of Learning Disabled and Normal-Achieving Children on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test.

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Nagle, Richard J.; Thwaite, Ben C. – Psychology in the Schools, 1979

Compared the performance of learning disabled and normal-achieving third- and fourth-grade children on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test to determine group differences along the impulsivity-reflection dimension. Overall results suggest that learning disabled children are not more impulsive but rather use poor strategic behavior in processing…

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education

Delay of Gratification and Time Concept in Reflective and Impulsive Children.

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Goldman, Amy P.; Everett, Frances – Child Study Journal, 1985

Investigated time conceptualizations and delay of gratification capacities of 64 6- to 10-year-olds identified as impulsive or reflective according to performance on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test. They were administered a maintenance of delay of gratification task, a time concept questionnaire, and several measures of temporal perspective…

Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Processes