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Thomsen, Tamara – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2016
One way to avert negative influences on well-being when confronted with blocked goals is the flexible adjustment of one's goals to the given situation. This study examines developmental differences in flexible goal adjustment (FGA) regarding age and gender in a sample of N = 815 participants (10 to 20 years; M = 13.63, SD = 2.60, 48.5% male).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bouwmeester, Samantha; Sijtsma, Klaas – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2007
Fuzzy trace theory posits that during development the use of verbatim information for solving transitive relationships shifts to the use of gist information. In cognitive developmental research that uses a cross-sectional design, the binomial mixture model is often used to identify such shifts. Because the binomial mixture model assumes equal task…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages, Cognitive Development
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Nesselroade, John R. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1984
Raymond B. Cattell's research has produced many conceptual, methodological, measurement, and data analysis tools for identifying and studying interindividual differences and similarities in intraindividual change patterns. Additional Cattell contributions to lifespan developmental research include personality and ability concepts and their…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages, Experimenter Characteristics, Learning Theories