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Peer reviewedMcCall, Robert B. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Eye Fixations, Infants
Peer reviewedFord, Marguerite P. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Grade 4, Memory
Peer reviewedSiegel, Alexander W.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Eight reflective and eight impulsive preschool children were tested in a forced-choice recognition memory task. Reflective children made more correct recognition choices than did impulsive children under all experimental conditions. (ST)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conceptual Tempo, Forced Choice Technique, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedBrotsky, S. Joyce; Carlin, T. June – Journal of Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Error Patterns, Memory, Paired Associate Learning
Download full textRodenborn, Leo V., Jr. – 1972
The project's purpose was to determine whether attention to the task during testing was a confounding variable in measures of visual perception ability. Samples of 30 perceptually handicapped (PH) and 30 normal subjects (N) were randomly selected from children so classified on the Frostig DTVP, providing they had IQ scores between 85 and 115 on…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attention, Factor Analysis, Handicapped Children
Halpern, Diane F. – 2000
This book examines the science and politics of cognitive sex differences, reflecting theories and research in the area over the past several years. Eight chapters discuss: (1) "Introduction and Overview" (e.g., theoretical approaches, values and science, and terminology); (2) "Searching for Sex Differences in Cognitive…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Ability, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSoderman, Anne K.; Chhikara, Sudha; Hsiu-Ching, Chen; Kuo, Elaine – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1999
Examined sex differences in perceptual and cognitive abilities and in reading skills among 922 first graders in the United States, India, and Taiwan. Found that girls scored significantly higher than boys on reading skills, visual memory, directionality, and ability to track nonsymbolic figures. Urban children outscored rural children on four…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy
Peer reviewedVogel, Susan A.; Walsh, Patricia C. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1987
Gender differences in level and pattern of cognitive abilities were examined in 49 learning-disabled college students. Females were stronger in visual-motor abilities and verbal conceptualization, whereas the males' highest abilities were nonverbal visual-spatial. Both groups showed weaknesses in memory for digits and factual knowledge and in…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests
