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Wallsten, Thomas S.; Pleskac, Timothy J.; Lejuez, C. W. – Psychological Review, 2005
This article models the cognitive processes underlying learning and sequential choice in a risk-taking task for the purposes of understanding how they occur in this moderately complex environment and how behavior in it relates to self-reported real-world risk taking. The best stochastic model assumes that participants incorrectly treat outcome…
Descriptors: Modeling (Psychology), Probability, Cognitive Processes, Adolescents
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Holden, Edward A. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1971
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
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Possel, Patrick; Seemann, Simone; Ahrens, Stefanie; Hautzinger, Martin – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
In Dodge's model of "social information processing" depression is the result of a linear sequence of five stages of information processing ("Annu Rev Psychol" 44: 559-584, 1993). These stages follow a person's reaction to situational stimuli, such that each stage of information processing mediates the relationship between earlier and later stages.…
Descriptors: Testing, Information Processing, Interpersonal Competence, Depression (Psychology)
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Dykens, Elisabeth M.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1997
A study examined the cognitive and behavioral profiles in 10 individuals (ages 14-51) with Smith-Magenis syndrome. Results found the individuals showed significant relative weaknesses in sequential processing and strengths in naming a partially completed drawing, identifying things, and in reading/decoding. Behavioral findings indicated…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems