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Combinatorial Skills: Converging Developments over the Second Year.
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Brownell, Celia A. – Child Development, 1988
Children's ability to produce integrated sequences of discrete behaviors was examined as a function of age and task demands for several behavioral domains. Results are discussed in terms of possible age-related constraints on combinatorial skills that operate at a general, cross-domain level during toddlerhood. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Ability, Performance Factors
Sleep Patterns in the Healthy Aged: Relationship with Intellectual Function
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Prinz, Patricia N. – Journal of Gerontology, 1977
Sleep patterns of elderly subjects (N=12) differed from young adult levels. When sleep variables were compared with individual changes in intellectual function measured across the seventh through 10th decades of life, a positive correlation was found between time in REM sleep and several longitudinal measures of mental functioning. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Gerontology, Intellectual Development
Curiosity, Persistence and Problem Solving Behaviors Among Elementary School Children. Final Report.
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Peterson, Rita Whitmore; Lowery, Lawrence F. – 1970
A study of the physical activity or motor responses associated with curiosity, persistence, and problem solving behaviors was undertaken to learn more about the general developmental nature of these behaviors among elementary school children. The sample consisted of 125 children from kindergarten, second, fourth and sixth grade, all of whom…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Curiosity, Elementary School Students
Learning and Reaction Time Performance in Older Veterans: Relationship to Attitudes and Life Satisfaction.
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Milligan, W. L.; And Others – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1981
Younger (age 20-35) veterans showed better performance on learning and psychomotor tasks than did older (age 55-70) veterans. Positive attitudes toward aging, and greater life satisfaction were associated with better performance on the behavioral tasks in the older group. Results suggest age-related behavior may be related to psychosocial…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Age Differences, Attitudes
Developmental Patterns of Conceptual Styles
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Penk, W. E. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
Age Changes in Preference and Skill Measures of Handedness
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Bruml, Hana – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Black Youth, Lateral Dominance
How Do Children Coordinate Simultaneous Upper and Lower Extremity Tasks? The Development of Dual Motor Task Coordination.
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Getchell, Nancy; Whitall, Jill – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Compared coupling characteristics of clapping simultaneous with walking or galloping, consistency across trials, and phasing variability among 4-, 6-, 8-, and 10-year-olds. Found that for walk/clap tasks, children adopted adult-like coupling patterns by age 8 and with the same consistency by age 10. Across age, children became less variable in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Development
Children's Predictions of Consistency in People's Actions.
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Kalish, Charles W. – Cognition, 2002
Three experiments explored the conditions under which inductive inferences about people were made by children and adults. Results indicated that children often predicted that people would behave differently in the future than they did in the past. Younger children limited predictions of consistency to non-psychological events. Older children…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Relationship Between Learning Styles and Academic Achievement. Final Report.
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McKinney, James D.; And Others – 1974
This study investigated the relationship between learning styles, classroom behaviors, ability levels, and academic achievement in an open classroom kindergarten setting. Thirty subjects were selected (ten children from each of the 4-, 5-, and 6-year-old groups). Each child was tested on the following measures: Matching Familiar Figures (MMF);…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Aggression, Behavior Patterns