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Tenney, Elizabeth R.; Small, Jenna E.; Kondrad, Robyn L.; Jaswal, Vikram K.; Spellman, Barbara A. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Do children and adults use the same cues to judge whether someone is a reliable source of information? In 4 experiments, we investigated whether children (ages 5 and 6) and adults used information regarding accuracy, confidence, and calibration (i.e., how well an informant's confidence predicts the likelihood of being correct) to judge informants'…
Descriptors: Cues, Credibility, Information Dissemination, Experiments
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Stricker, Lawrence J.; Rock, Donald A. – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Evaluated the extent to which the Graduate Record Examinations General Test measures the same constructs for older test takers that it does for younger examinees. Results suggest that the convergent validity of the test is similar across the age groups, but discriminant validity is somewhat different for older examinees. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Comparative Testing, Factor Analysis