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Automatic Activation of Adolescents' Peer-Relational Schemas: Evidence from Priming with Facial Identity
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Nummenmaa, Lauri; Peets, Katlin; Salmivalli, Christina – Child Development, 2008
This study provides experimental evidence for automatic, relationship-specific social information processing in 13-year-old adolescents. Photographs of participants' liked, disliked, and unknown peers were used as primes in an affective priming task with happy and angry facial expression probes and in a hypothetical vignette task. For the…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Information Processing
Visual Masking and Developmental Differences in Information Processing
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Miller, Leon K. – Child Development, 1972
Results were interpreted in terms of current conceptions of age differences in information-processing speed. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Information Processing
Changes with Age in Measures of Processing Efficiency.
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Bisanz, Jeffrey; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Investigates performance of 8, 10, 12 year olds and adults on cognitive tasks in terms of several processing-speed measures, each of which may change independently with age. Results underscore the complexity of developmental change in processing efficiency. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes
Information Processing and the Modification of an "Impulsive Conceptual Tempo"
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Heider, Eleanor Rosch – Child Development, 1971
Eighty middle-class and 80 lower-class boys were tested on a visual and a verbal task under 3 conditions designed to modify an impulsive tempo." (Author)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Conceptual Tempo, Information Processing, Motivation
The Visual Information Processing Speed of Lower- and Middle-Class Children
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Bosco, James – Child Development, 1972
The data indicated that disadvantaged children required more time to process visual information than did middle-class children, but the processing speed for the 2 groups tended to become more similar as grade level was increased. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students