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Busby, K.; Pivik, R. T. – Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1983
To examine the relationship between superior intellectual functioning and physiological patterns and events during sleep, sleep records made on five consecutive nights and based on standard electrographic measures were made for 11 male children between 8 and 12 years of age. (RH)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Comparative Analysis, Eye Movements
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Rojahn, Johannes; Naglieri, Jack A. – Intelligence, 2006
Lynn [Lynn, R., 2002. Sex differences on the progressive matrices among 15-16 year olds: some data from South Africa. "Personality and Individual Differences 33," 669-673.] proposed that biologically based developmental sex differences produce different IQ trajectories across childhood and adolescence. To test this theory we analyzed the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Nonverbal Ability, Intelligence Quotient, Children
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Walton, Joan Riley; Nuttall, Ronald L.; Nuttall, Ena Vazquez – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1997
A study of 54 Salvadoran children (age 12), born in the Salvadoran Civil War, found the personal/social impact of the war was more important than family togetherness or war intensity in determining the mental health of the children. Children's intelligence was highly related to surviving with greater mental health. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Children, Coping, Emotional Disturbances, Environmental Influences
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Reyes-Lagunes, Isabel; And Others – Human Development, 1979
Reports on the findings of a comparative study of mental abilities of Mexican and American children. Discusses age, sex, social class, and urban-rural differences, as well as cultural differences. (SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies
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Lynn, Richard; And Others – Intelligence, 1988
Major visuospatial and verbal abilities were assessed for 197 10-year-olds in Hong Kong and 170 10-year-olds in the United Kingdom. The Hong Kong subjects resembled their Japanese counterparts in having high Searman's "g," exhibiting abstract reasoning ability, high spatial ability, high perceptual speed, and low word fluency. (SLD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis