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Whitney, Jane; Joormann, Jutta; Gotlib, Ian H.; Kelley, Ryan G.; Acquaye, Tenah; Howe, Meghan; Chang, Kiki D.; Singh, Manpreet K. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: Cognitive models of bipolar I disorder (BD) may aid in identification of children who are especially vulnerable to chronic mood dysregulation. Information-processing biases related to memory and attention likely play a role in the development and persistence of BD among adolescents; however, these biases have not been extensively…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Adolescents, Memory, Depression (Psychology)
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Webster, Raymond E.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1996
Assesses information processing and memory functioning in 50 children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) with and without learning disabilities (LD). Both groups struggled with auditory ordered recall. The ADHD/LD group demonstrated more problems transferring information into short-term and long-term memory stores than…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Elementary School Students
Solso, Robert L. , Ed. – 1973
Contributions in the first section of this volume are: "Learning to Identify Toy Block Structures" by Patrick Winston; "Beyond the Yellow-Volkswagen Detector and the Grandmother Cell: A General Strategy for the Exploration of Operations in Human Pattern Recognition" by Naomi Weisstein; "Visual Recognition in a Theory of Information Processing" by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Information Processing
Hamrin, Jeannie M. – 1978
A computer model of memory (based on input, retrieval, and reaction time) was applied to the rapid processing of simple arithmetic facts (addition, subtraction, and multiplication) by 18 educable retarded adolescents when compared with 18 nonretarded fourth graders (of equal mental age) and 18 normal adolescents. Results for addition indicated…
Descriptors: Addition, Adolescents, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes
Hagen, John W.; Hale, Gordon A. – 1973
To study the development of selective attention in children a paradigm was developed in which certain features of the stimulus were designated as relevant for task performance while others were defined as incidental. Performance on the central task was assessed as well as later recall of information about the incidental stimuli, and these two…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention, Cognitive Development, Correlation
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: advance organizers; a comparison of the effectiveness and efficiency of behavioral objectives and sample tests; anaphoric nominal substitution and its relationship to reading…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Behavioral Objectives