This study examines two questions: (1) are the natural environmental contingencies under which reflective and impulsive children operate different? and (2) if so, which, if any of these differences, predict the nature of behavior change? Forty impulsive and reflective children and their mothers were observed while solving discrimination problems…

To determine degrees of impulsivity between emotionally disturbed/behavior disordered (ED/BD) students and their nonlabeled peers and to evaluate the developmental characteristics of impulsivity within both groups, 27 ED/BD and 27 nonlabeled students aged 9 to 13 took the Matching Familiar Figures Test. No significant differences between the…

The major purpose of this study was to assess the degree to which cognitive style, as indexed by the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT), is related to the way in which children respond to problems with social or interpersonal content. Fifty-two reflective and 64 impulsive first- and second-grade boys were presented with a number of stories in…