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Are Learning Disabled Children More Impulsive? A Comparison of Learning Disabled and Normal-Achieving Children on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test.
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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
The Relationship Between Impulse Control and Self-Esteem in School Children
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Loney, Jan – Psychology in the Schools, 1974
The prediction was borne out that children with inadequate impulse control would be found to have inadequate self-esteem and that the association would strengthen with age. Contrary to expectation, the association between impulse control and self-esteem was not stronger for girls than for boys. (Author/PC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Projective Measures
Impulsive Cognitive Style: Three Modification Techniques
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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)