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Eudaimonic Growth: Narrative Growth Goals Predict Increases in Ego Development and Subjective Well-Being 3 Years Later
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Bauer, Jack J.; McAdams, Dan P. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
We examine (a) the normative course of eudaimonic well-being in emerging adulthood and (b) whether people's narratives of major life goals might prospectively predict eudaimonic growth 3 years later. We define eudaimonic growth as longitudinal increases in eudaimonic well-being, which we define as the combination of psychosocial maturity and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Maturity (Individuals), Well Being, Self Concept
A Biased Test of the Encoding Shift Hypothesis.
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Bisanz, Jeffrey; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
A recognition memory experiment with 8-, 11- and 20-year-olds investigated the hypothesis that, with age, semantic encoding becomes increasingly important relative to acoustic encoding. (CM)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comprehension
Development of the Appreciation of Verbal Jokes
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Shultz, Thomas R.; Horibe, Francis – Developmental Psychology, 1974
A study of the development of 6- to 12-year-old children's appreciation of verbal jokes was conducted within the framework of the incongruity and resolution theory of humor. Results revealed age differences indicating that older children appreciated both structural components while younger children appreciated the incongruity structure. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Number Conservation in Children below Age Six: Its Relationship to Age, Perceptual Dimensions, and Language Comprehension
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LaPointe, Karen; O'Donnell, James P. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
The influence of perceptual factors and language comprehension on quantity judgments (number conservation) was assessed in children, aged 2-5. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Conservation (Concept)
Development of Quantitative Reasoning and Gender Biases.
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Klaczynski, Paul A.; Aneja, Alka – Developmental Psychology, 2002
The relationship between higher order reasoning and sex bias was investigated among children 7, 9 and 11 years old. Children read arguments enhancing their own or other gender, then rated argument intelligence, judged other children based on observations, and justified their arguments. Findings showed that own-gender reasoning biases declined with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cognitive Structures
A Cognitive Developmental Study of Metaphor Comprehension
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Billow, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Metaphors of similarity and proportionality, together with a pictorial form of similarity metaphors, proverbs, and several Piaget-type cognitive tasks, were given to 50 boys aged 5 through 13 years. Results indicated that metaphor comprehension is a type of classificatory behavior, the development of which is related to maturing cognitive…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Developmental Differences in the Use of Distinctiveness, Consensus, and Consistency Information for Making Causal Attributions.
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DiVitto, Barbara; McArthur, Leslie Zebrowitz – Developmental Psychology, 1978
This study examines developmental differences in third and sixth graders' and college students' use of distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency information for making causal attributions. (CM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, College Students, Comprehension