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Brown, Michael T.; Helms, Janet E. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1986
Investigated the impact of developmental concerns on 140 college students' self-disclosure using an instrument based on Erikson's psychosocial theory of development. Results indicated two developmental issues were found to be significant predictors of willingness to disclose problems to fathers and to same- and opposite-sex friends. (Author/BL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Developmental Tasks, Higher Education
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Thomas, Hoben; Jamison, Wesley – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Reports on three studies which investigated the development of the concept of horizontality in subjects from nursey school through college age. Normative data collected allowed for evaluation of Piaget's stages and for differences due to age, sex, and apparatus shape and orientation. (ED)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students, Developmental Tasks
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Waters, Harriet Salatas; Schreiber, Linda L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
Examined sex differences in eighth and tenth graders' and college students' use of elaboration in paired associate learning. Findings indicate that, as males and females became more proficient strategy users, sex differences diminished under more favorable task conditions that encouraged strategy use but remained constant under less favorable…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Developmental Tasks, Higher Education
Siegel, Alexander W.; Allik, Judith P. – 1972
Kindergarten, second-grade, fifth-grade, and college subjects were tested in a serial-position recall task under each of four conditions: Visual stimuli/visual recall cue, visual stimuli/auditory recall cue, auditory stimuli/visual recall cue, auditory stimuli/auditory recall cue. Visual stimuli were pictures of common animals and objects;…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Cues