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Warmingham, Jennifer M.; Handley, Elizabeth D.; Russotti, Justin; Rogosch, Fred A.; Cicchetti, Dante – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Decision-making impairments during emerging adulthood confer risk for challenges in social and occupational roles and may increase the odds of developing health problems. Childhood maltreatment is related to maladaptation in cognitive and affective domains (e.g., executive functioning, emotion regulation) implicated in the development of…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Young Adults, Early Experience, Trauma
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Signorella, Margaret L.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1989
College students participated in a study to test competing hypotheses derived from Bem's gender schema theory and Spence's gender identity theory. In two samples, sex, self-concept, and spatial activities made significant direct contributions to the prediction of spatial performance, supporting Spence's theory. (RH)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Performance Factors, Predictor Variables
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Legerstee, Maria; Barna, Joanne; DiAdamo, Carolyn – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Examined whether 6-month-olds expect people to behave differently toward persons and inanimate objects. Found that infants habituated to an actor talking to something hidden behind an occluder looked longer at an object, whereas infants habituated to an actor reaching and swiping looked longer at a person. No difference in looking at stimuli was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Expectation, Habituation
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Perry, Michelle; Lewis, Johanna L. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined whether indexes of verbal imprecision could be quantified and used to predict changes in fifth graders' problem-solving performance. Found that four types of verbal imprecision predicted improved performance: false starts and self-repairs, deletions, long pauses, and metacognitive comments. Results suggested that adopting a new approach…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
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Casey, M. Beth; Nuttall, Ronald L.; Pezaris, Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined ability of individuals biologically predisposed to poor spatial skills to capitalize on opportunities to develop these skills. Found that for girls with brothers, those from all right-handed families had lower mental-rotation scores than did others. Among children participating in mental-rotation-type activities with their brothers,…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Early Adolescents, Family Influence, Handedness