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King, P.M.; And Others – Human Development, 1983
Reports a two-year longitudinal study of 55 adolescents and young adults who were divided into three groups and given Reflective Judgment Interviews and the Concept Mastery Test to investigate sequentiality of reflective judgment stages. Results indicate support for seven hypothesized shifts in epistemic assumptions over time.(Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Jacklin, Carol Nagy; Maccoby, Eleanor E. – 1972
The authors are emmersed in a comprehensive review of the literature on intellectual sex differences. This paper consists of the first progress report and the tentative hypotheses of the work completed so far. Discussion is initially concerned with verbal and spatial abilities. It is concluded that girls learn language earlier, and may continue to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Females, Individual Differences
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Jarvik, Ussy F. – American Psychologist, 1975
Reflections on psychological perspectives of aging are focused around issues of biological changes and mental functioning, genetic factors in aging, psychological changes with aging, individual differences in mental functioning and the intellectual decline of the aged. (EH)
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Genetics
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Bat-haee, Mohammad Ali – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Intellectual Development
Hettich, Paul – 1997
Seldom are college students introduced to theories that describe how they and other students change intellectually during their college years. Two epistemological perspectives on cognitive development in college students and how they can be presented to students are examined in this paper. The first perspective is William Perry's forms of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Epistemology
Butzow, John W.; Schlenker, Richard M. – 1978
This study was designed to determine the relationship between the Lowenfeldian visual-haptic (perceptual) and the Piagetian concrete-formal (operational reasoning) continua. The study also investigated the relationship between age, sex, academic goal, academic preference, and a person's perceptual aptitude or intellectual reasoning abilities.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Covariance, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes
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Wigfield, Allan; Meece, Judith L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Confirmatory factor analysis of data from a portion of a long-term study provided evidence for two components of math anxiety for 298 male and 266 female 6th through 12th graders. The components related to negative affective reactions and cognitive aspects. Age and gender differences were significant. (TJH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
Crowther, E. M. – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1978
Adolescents, ages 11-12 and 13-14, were tested for maturity of judgment about stability-change situations and about time perspective. (CP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes