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Parker, Philip D.; Schoon, Ingrid; Tsai, Yi-Miau; Nagy, Gabriel; Trautwein, Ulrich; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
In this article, the authors develop and test a differential effects model of university entry versus major selection using a set of common predictors, including background factors (gender and socioeconomic status), academic achievement, and academic self-concept. The research used data from 2 large longitudinal databases from Germany (N = 5,048)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Background
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Baldwin, David V.; Skinner, Martie L. – Developmental Psychology, 1989
The purpose of this study was to replicate the "basic training" structural model in Patterson's (1982) coercion theory, extending its scope to single-mother families with younger (six- to eight-year-old) boys. Significance of the successful replication was seen to lie in implications for the generalizability of the model across family…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Generalization, Models
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Samuelson, Larissa K. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
This research tested the hypothesis that young children's bias to generalize names for solid objects by shape is the product of statistical regularities among nouns in the early productive vocabulary. Fifteen- to 20-month-olds given intensive naming experiences with typical noun categories developed a precocious shape bias and showed accelerated…
Descriptors: Bias, Dimensional Preference, Language Acquisition, Models