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Hooks, Elizabeth; Dale, Brittany A.; Hernandez Finch, Maria E. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to determine if individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) display a unique pattern of responses on the Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent (PAI-A). Twenty adolescents between ages 12 and 18 completed the PAI-A, and their scores were compared to matched community and clinical samples from the…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Assessment, Psychopathology, Adolescents
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Nagle, Richard J.; Thwaite, Ben C. – Psychology in the Schools, 1979
Compared the performance of learning disabled and normal-achieving third- and fourth-grade children on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test to determine group differences along the impulsivity-reflection dimension. Overall results suggest that learning disabled children are not more impulsive but rather use poor strategic behavior in processing…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education
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Schleuter, Stanley L. – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
The Musical Aptitude Profile (MAP) and four levels of the Iowa Tests of Music Literacy (ITML) were administered to university non-music majors to investigate the use of the "in doubt" test item response. The "in doubt" response was not used indiscriminately by the university students on either test battery. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Guessing (Tests), Higher Education, Research Projects
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Bellamy, G. Thomas – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
Current literature suggests that a teacher's expectancies for a pupil may in part determine the pupil's subsequent behavior. This review asks how such expectancies affect the teacher's own behavior, with the goal of determining what teacher behaviors mediate the observed effect on the pupil. A model of this process is proposed. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Orbach, Israel – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
Boys (N=55) aged 8-11, categorized as impulsives by the Matching Familiar Figures test, participated in a study comparing the effects of three different techniques, designed to change an impulsive cognitive style on response accuracy and response latency. Subjects trained to increase response latency did show a significant increase in latency.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Elementary School Students, Modeling (Psychology)