NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Creativity, Curiosity, Exploded Chickens.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Seal, David O. – College Teaching, 1995
A discussion of creativity and curiosity, particularly in the context of college instruction, examines two psychological models of creativity, the cognitive approach of Howard Gardner and one aligned with depth psychology (James Hillman). Commonalities are noted: preference for mess over management and for boundaries transgressed rather than…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Psychology, College Instruction, Creativity
Intellectual Development within Transracial Adoptive Families: Retesting the Confluence Model.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Berbaum, Michael L.; Moreland, Richard L. – Child Development, 1985
Estimates confluence model of intellectual development for a within-family sample of 321 children from 101 transracial adoptive families. Mental ages of children and their parents and birth or adoption intervals were used in a nonlinear least-squares estimation procedure to obtain children's predicted mental ages. Results suggest efficiency of the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Children, Cognitive Development, Family Influence
The Birth Order Puzzle.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Zajonc, R. B.; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1979
Discusses the controversy of the relationship between birth order and intellectual performance through a detailed evaluation of the confluence model which assumes that the rate of intellectual growth is a function of the intellectual environment within the family and associated with the special circumstances of last children. (CM)
Descriptors: Birth Order, Children, Evaluation, Family Environment
Maria Montessori: Teacher of Unteachable Children.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Brendtro, Larry K. – Reclaiming Children and Youth: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1999
Describes the work of Maria Montessori, starting with her career in medicine which gave her the unique perspective to probing the frontiers of the inner intellectual life of children. Explains how she felt every student possessed untapped potentials. Discusses how her concept of the potential of the absorbent mind of children is being…
Descriptors: Children, Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Intellectual Development
Father Absence and Cognitive Performance in a Large Sample of Six- to Eleven-Year-Old Children.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Svanum, Soren; And Others – Child Development, 1982
The effects of father absence on educational achievement and intellectual development of 6- to 11-year-old children were investigated by employing a nationally representative sample of 5,493 father-present and 616 father-absent children from the Health Examination Survey of the National Center for Health Statistics. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Comparative Analysis, Fatherless Family
Pathways in Development. Studies in the Learning Sciences, 4.
Bower, T. G. R. – 1977
The growth model of intelligence; i.e. intelligence is the product of genetics plus environment (I.Q.=G+E), is discussed and questioned. If the growth model is discarded, formulating the problem of the development of intelligence in different ways and thinking of different possible technologies for changing intelligence can begin. The child…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cultural Differences, Developmental Stages