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Peer reviewedGordon, Joan C.; Endsley, Richard C. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Results indicated that subjects in each source of blame group responded with significantly less amplitude and speed following interruption than noninterruption. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grade 3, Males, Reaction Time
Peer reviewedMcKinney, James D. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Reflective subjects generated characteristically different and more efficient hypothesis-testing strategies than impulsive subjects. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo, Data Analysis, Grade 2
Peer reviewedMiller, Scott A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1973
These results stand in sharp contrast to those previously reported which concluded that most college students will abandon conservation; the present finding is of strong (though less than perfect) resistance. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: College Students, Conservation (Concept), Data Analysis, Extinction (Psychology)
Peer reviewedBerman, Phyllis W. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The age effect in this study was such that younger children required proportionately more experience with reward than nonreward before they were able to improve their performance on reward problems over six sessions. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedSinger, Dorothy G.; Kornfield, Barbara – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Given a chance to eat the candy or drink the juice in this study, the 5-year-olds, 7-year-olds and young adults failed to conserve and made choices based on what they said was appearance of greater quantity rather than upon the already established equivalencies. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Data Analysis
Peer reviewedRoodin, Paul A. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Kindergarten Children, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Shift Studies
Peer reviewedKatz, Phyllis A. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The prediction was confirmed that young children would experience more difficulty in learning to discriminate faces of another race than those of their own. Additional findings revealed that discrimination-learning performance with racial stimuli is related to a number of factors including developmental level, race of the subject, and race of the…
Descriptors: Color, Cues, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedAiken, Leona S.; Williams, Tannis M. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The results provide evidence of remarkable consistency in both accuracy and manner of performance from first grade through college age levels. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Concept Formation, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedJackson, Joseph P. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The present study was designed to clarify issues concerning the development of the relative capabilities of modal systems when information acquisition is equated for the modalities by sequential presentation. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, Perceptual Development, Sensory Integration
Peer reviewedFriend, Ronald M.; Neale, John M. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Major finding of the study was that white children judged that ability and effort were relatively more important for their performance than task difficulty and luck, while the reverse was true for blacks. (Authors)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Childhood Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedRosenthal, Ted L.; Zimmerman, Barry J. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Four experiments are described in which observational learning was found on multidimensional conservation tasks. (MB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Cultural Differences, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedMoynahan, Ellen; Glick, Joseph – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Results indicate that identity conservation generally does not precede equivalence conservation; instead the two conservations tend to co-occur. (Authors)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes, Conservation (Concept), Data Analysis
Peer reviewedSchack, Mary Lou; Massari, David J. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Results are discussed in terms of the facilitory effect on waiting of the perception of a decrease in temporal distance from a goal. (Authors)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Data Analysis, Delay of Gratification, Grade 1
Peer reviewedOdom, Richard; Buzman, Richard D. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
It was shown that hierarchies change with development and that relative salience of a dimension is negatively associated with both reaction time of choice and number of errors on the identity task. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, Perceptual Development
Peer reviewedPodd, Marvin H. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Results of the study generally support the position that moral ideology is related to identity status. (Authors)
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Electrical Stimuli
