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Peer reviewedSchleser, Robert; And Others – Child Development, 1981
Preoperational and concrete-operational first and second graders performed on a training task and a generalization task prior to and after serving in one of five instructional groups. The instructional groups were: no-training control, specific self-instruction, specific didactic control, general self-instruction and general didactic control.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Watkins, John M.; And Others – 1978
Generalizability theory was applied to the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFF), an instrument commonly employed to assess reflection-impulsivity in children, in order to analyze the dependability of the MFF at four grade levels: second, third, fourth, and fifth. The MFF was individually administered to 114 boys. A completely crossed, two-facet…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests, Conceptual Tempo
Download full textCarroll, Jeri A. – 1977
To determine whether or not cognitive tempo influences visual cue preferences in early readers, 65 kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade children were tested on the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) test and a cue selection nonsense trigram test. It was hypothesized that significant differences would be found in cue selection strategies of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Cues
Peer reviewedCohen, Robert; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Examined effects of a self-instruction intervention on the relationship between cognitive level and conceptual tempo among preoperational and concrete operational children. Cognitive level and conceptual tempo were strongly related; preoperational children tended to be classified as impulsive, concrete operational children as reflective.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style
Wood, Carolyn M. – 1979
This study investigated the predictive power of four indices of cognitive style, the intercorrelations of cognitive style with selected cognitive and affective variables, and the test-retest reliability of the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) test. The social, emotional, and cognitive development of 38 kindergarten children was assessed by their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style
Okun, Morris A.; And Others – 1979
The internal consistency reliability and discriminant validity of the adult version of the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFF) were determined for a sample spanning adulthood; age and sex differences were also investigated. Sixty-three men and 63 women ranging from 18 to 78 years of age, with at least 12 years of schooling, were administered…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Conceptual Tempo
