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Opfer, John E.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 2001
Two studies examined models that preschoolers, fifth-graders, and adults use to guide predictions of self-beneficial, goal-directed action. Found that preschoolers' predictions were consistent with an animal-based model, fifth-graders' with biology-based and complexity-based models, and adults' predictions with a biology-based model. All age…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Matthews, Karen A. – Child Development, 1979
Examines the initial reactions of type A and type B boys and men to uncontrollable events. Type A individuals are characterized by extremes of competitive achievement striving, impatience, and aggression, a pattern of behavior implicated by recent research in the etiology of coronary heart disease. Type B individuals exhibit the relative absence…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Aggression, Behavior Patterns, College Students