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Lunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – J Educ Meas, 1969
"This investigation sought to determine curricular and background correlates of growth in ability during college. In contrast to previous studies, the results suggest differences in predicted growth between the sexes. (Author/AP)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, College Students, Educational Experience, Intellectual Development

Lunneborg, Patricia W. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Ability, Birth Order, Family (Sociological Unit), Intellectual Development

Backman, Margaret E. – American Educational Research Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Ability, Ethnic Groups, Grade 12, Intellectual Development
Harris, Lauren; And Others – Child Develop, 1970
Reports that form matching increased with age both in number of subjects with reliable preferences and in strength of preferences, but that at all ages form matches predominated. (Author/DR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Intellectual Development

Baxter Magolda, Marcia B. – Journal of College Student Development, 1988
Compared standardized versus semi-structured approach to measuring intellectual development to identify accurate methods to assess gender differences and similarities. Intellectual development was measured for 101 college freshmen using the Measure of Epistemological Reflection and a semi-structured interview. Results provide strong evidence that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Freshmen, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education

Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1989
Investigated child rearing attitudes of parents of 128 Swedish preschoolers to determine associations of parental agreement. Results suggest that the impact of parental agreement on psychological functioning in Sweden may be less general and gender-differentiated than the impact in the United States, which was demonstrated in Brock and others'…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Family Characteristics, Intellectual Development, Marital Instability
Glickman, Judith R. – 1976
This paper reviews the research on sex differences in intellectual functioning as it relates to verbal abilities, spatial abilities, and reading aptitudes. Research supports such statements as: sex aptitudes do not become significantly apparent until adolescence; males perform better than females on problems involving field-indep (picking out one…
Descriptors: Intellectual Development, Intelligence Differences, Reading Research, Research Reviews (Publications)

McCarthy, Dorothea; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1970
The WAIS M index did not correlate significantly with any of the other measures for either sex and thus should not be interpreted as a personality indicator of sexual inversion or homosexuality. It represents solely sex differences in certain aspects of intellectual performance. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Intellectual Development, Performance Factors, Personality Studies

Gottfried, Allen W.; Bathurst, Kay – Science, 1983
Examined consistency of hand preference in a longitudinal study of children between 18 and 42 months of age. Results showed a sex-specific relationship between hand consistence and intellectual development. Females with consistency of handedness were precocious compared to females without such consistency; the same relationship did not hold for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Infant Behavior, Infants, Intellectual Development

Burton, Grace M. – Mathematics Teacher, 1979
Mathematics as a masculine domain is discussed as being a detriment to the intellectual development and the career progress of women. Remedies to this condition are explored. (MP)
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged, Instruction, Intellectual Development

Stonewater, Barbara Bradley – Initiatives, 1989
Links the works of William Perry and of Carol Gilligan in a discussion of the need to consider differences between men and women in their patterns of intellectual development. Considers the need to examine gender differences especially as they relate to career decision making. (NB)
Descriptors: Career Development, College Students, Decision Making, Higher Education
Ozer, Daniel – 1981
The rich complexity of the concepts of masculinity and femininity has been reflected in personality measures in at least two different ways: by employing a variety of subscales with comparatively homogeneous items or by using a single scale with comparatively heterogeneous items. The Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ) was the subject of an…
Descriptors: College Students, Intellectual Development, Personality Assessment, Personality Traits
Jennings, Kay D.; Martin, Patricia Peters – 1979
This study examines the longitudinal relationships between mastery motivation and differentiated measures of intellectual development assessed at 1 and 3 1/2 years of age in a sample of 35 children (21 boys and 14 girls). At one year three types of mastery motivation were assessed using structured tasks: (1) producing effects (engaging in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Infants, Intellectual Development

Zajonc, R. B. – American Psychologist, 1986
The confluence model shows the influence of family on intellectual growth. The decline of SAT scores is related to changing family patterns. Intellectual growth is lower for children with many siblings. The increase in average family size for the cohorts taking SATs between 1963 and 1980 caused scores to decline. (Author/VM)
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Family Influence, Family Size, Intellectual Development

Schaie, K. W. – Human Development, 1972
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Sectional Studies, Generalization, Intellectual Development