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Rapid Assessment of Infant Predictors of Adult IQ: Midtwin-Midparent Analyses.
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Benson, Janette B.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Examined 114 pairs of same-sex infant twins and their parents to investigate infant predictors of adult IQ. Found that some measures of infants' information processing, language ability, and temperament predicted the average IQ of infants' parents. Results support the view that some stability in certain types of intellectual functioning from…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Infants, Intellectual Development
Private Speech Assessment: A Medium for Studying the Cognitive Processes of Young Creative Children.
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Daugherty, Martha; Logan, Jenny – Early Child Development and Care, 1996
Examined relationships among young children's metacognitive processing and creative ability, based on information-processing theory and Vygotsky's early thought development theory. Twenty-one five- and six-year olds were assessed on four attributes of creativity, and their private speech was coded. Specific qualities and characteristics of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Gifted, Intellectual Development
Helping Students Think.
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Schmidt, Janet A.; Davison, Mark L. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1983
Outlines a conceptual framework, the Reflective Judgement model, which describes predictable differences in the intellectual development of college students. Validation attempts are discussed, and applications leading to sound counseling and educational interventions are suggested. The model is illustrated with an example of a classroom assignment…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Epistemology, Higher Education
Cognitive Functioning and Social Competence as Predictors of Maladjustment in Sexually Abused Girls.
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Shapiro, Jeremy P.; And Others – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1992
To explain sexually abused children's various degrees of maladjustment, assessed behavior problems, social competence, and cognitive functioning in 53 black girls (5 to 16 years old). Internalizing dysfunction was positively related to three cognition-related variables: intellectual functioning, academic achievement, and age. Anxiety over the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Blacks
Correlates of Scientific Reasoning in Adolescents: Experience, Locus of Control, Age, Field Dependence-Independence, Rigidity/Flexibility, IQ, and Gender.
Stuessy, Carol Liebe – 1984
A model for the development of scientific reasoning in adolescents was formulated largely upon the basis of Piagetian theory. Included as potential determinants of scientific reasoning were experience, age, locus of control, field independence-dependence (FID), rigidity/flexibility, intelligence quotient (IQ), and sex. Causal relationships between…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Age, Cognitive Processes
Determinants of Achievement of Economics Concepts by Elementary School Students.
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Sosin, Kim; And Others – Journal of Economic Education, 1997
Uses test questions from the Basic Economics Test (BET) to reveal that elementary students are capable of understanding economics concepts. Maintains that neither ethnic background nor parental income makes a difference in economic learning. The most statistically significant determinant of improved scores was the extent to which a concept was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes