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Roberts, Ken – Journal of Youth Studies, 2007
This article presents the author's response to Wyn and Woodman (2006) who have urged shifting youth research away from a transition paradigm to a generation paradigm. The evidence that they marshal in support is mainly from Australia, but their arguments are intended to be relevant throughout the western world. Here, the author argues that Wyn and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Transitional Programs, Age Differences
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Kuhn, Deanna – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2006
We are pleased with the commentators' thoughtful reactions to our study, as they make it clear that the study met its major goal--identifying age differences that suggest developmental changes in the learning process and the strengthening of executive processes in the second decade of life.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Individual Development
Estrin, Harriet – Vocational Education Journal, 1990
A developmental approach to teaching about aging can help make students sensitive to the needs of the elderly. Such an approach emphasizes individual differences in the aging process and the uniqueness of personal experience, helps student experience physical changes of aging, and encourages attitude change through interaction. (SK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Attitude Change, Caregivers
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Mandler, Jean M. – Developmental Review, 1999
Maintains that Madole and Oakes' hypotheses are incorrect. Shows that conceptual development frequently goes from the abstract to the concrete and that extensive literature shows that there is more than one kind of categorization. Discusses ways in which perceptual and conceptual categorization differ. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Murphy, Kristina; McKone, Elinor; Slee, Judith – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Recounts 3 experiments providing evidence against 2 interpretations of previous research findings that explicit memory develops substantially from 3 years of age to adulthood while implicit memory remains stable. Argues that the implicit-explicit memory developmental dissociation reflects differences in strategic processing (strategy use and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development, Children
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Egan, Kieran – NAMTA Journal, 1994
Connects the imagination with one's affective states as related to 8- to 15-year-old students' engagement in a story or narrative. Discusses particular characteristics of narratives that engage students' imagination during these years and characteristics that are imaginatively engaging but in which the narrative component is less prominent. (BB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Children
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Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Boker, Steven M. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1997
Discusses how Adolph's research is relevant to four themes that are foundational to contemporary research on the development of perception and action: (1) reciprocity between perception and action; (2) prospective control of behavior; (3) variation and selection in the development of new behaviors; and (4) contributions of age and experience.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Individual Development, Infant Behavior
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Dawson, Theo L.; Gabrielian, Sonya – Developmental Review, 2003
Compares concepts defining Kohlbergian stages of moral development with those associated with orders of hierarchical complexity determined with a generalized content-independent stage-scoring system. Finds that Kohlberg's sequence generally matches that identified with the scoring system and that contract and authority concepts match the concepts…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Concept Formation
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Madole, Kelly L.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Review, 1999
Responds to Mandler's critique of authors' view of infant categorization. Maintains that their view of infant categorization is not characterized by a shift from one type of category to another but by gradual changes in the kinds of information infants can use in forming categories. Clarifies position regarding a single categorical process using…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Waters, Harriet Salatas – Child Development, 2000
Examines the concept of utilization deficiency related to memory strategy development. Argues that problems with current definition obscure previous important theoretical distinctions and limit investigations of strategy inefficiencies that are likely to be important in understanding development of strategy use. Maintains that the developmental…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Definitions
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Miller, Patricia H. – Child Development, 2000
Focuses on the importance and meaning of the degree of spontaneity in memory strategy production. Situates the concept of utilization deficiency within current work on memory strategy heterogeneity, contextual support, and situation-specific skills. Concludes that work on utilization deficiencies helps balance the focus on early emergence of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Definitions
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Schliemann, Analucia D.; Carraher, David W. – Developmental Review, 2002
Considers how students' mathematical thinking evolves as a result of their actions and everyday experiences and from increasing reliance on introduced mathematical principles and representations. Exemplifies how 8- to 10-year-olds' personal representations come to face with representations involving algebraic concepts. Explores implications for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Algebra, Children, Cognitive Development
LeVine, Elaine S.; Sallee, Alvin L. – 1987
Research indicates that families that adopt have many problems that would have existed even if the adopted child had been a biological member of the family, but that become more complex and intense due to adoption. A psychosocial and psychodynamic perspective toward family life suggests that in the adoption process, child and family pass through…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Adopted Children, Age Differences
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Bugental, Daphne Blunt; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1992
Examined developmental changes and individual variations in the ways children use expressive information from others. Concluded that processing deficits are more probable for younger children or for children with low perceived control than for other children. (BB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Structures
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Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky; Friedman, Sarah L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1993
Analyzes multiple components of planning, including problem representation, goal selection, a decision to plan, strategy choice, strategy execution, and monitoring. Analyzes three tasks typically used to study planning: the Tower of Hanoi; errand scheduling; and story comprehension. Argues that the components required to perform a planning task…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Context Effect, Individual Development
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