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A Qualitative Study of Individual and Peer Factors Related to Effective Nonviolent versus Aggressive Responses to Problem Situations among Adolescents with High Incidence Disabilities
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Sullivan, Terri N.; Helms, Sarah W.; Bettencourt, Amie F.; Sutherland, Kevin; Lotze, Geri M.; Mays, Sally; Wright, Stephen; Farrell, Albert D. – Behavioral Disorders, 2012
To enhance the positive adjustment of youths with high incidence disabilities, a better understanding of the factors that influence their use of effective responses in challenging situations is needed. In this qualitative study, adolescents described individual and peer factors that would influence their use of effective nonviolent or aggressive…
Descriptors: Violence, Learning Disabilities, Prevention, Adolescents
Concept Identification by Schizophrenic and Normal Subjects as a Function of Problem Complexity and Relevance of Social Cues
Pishkin, Vladimir; Bourne, Lyle E., Jr. – J Abnorm Psychol, 1969
Research supported in part by Veterans' Administration Medical Research Funds.
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cues, Difficulty Level, Information Processing
Effects of Meaningfulness and Context on Information Processing in Third-Graders.
Montgomery, Theresa; Richman, Shanna – 1979
The effects of meaningfulness of the stimulus materials and the presence or absence of contextual cues on problem-solving behavior were investigated. Third-graders (N=80) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions and their performance in a series of discrimination problems was observed. Subjects in Conditions I and II responded to stimuli…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Context Clues, Discrimination Learning
A Tentative Organizational Schema for Decision-Making Problems.
Osborn, William C.; Goodman, Barbara Ettinger – 1966
This report presents the results of research that examined widely diverse decision problems and attempted to specify their common behavior elements. To take into account the psychological complexity of most real-life decision problems, and to develop a tentative organization of decision behavior that will embrace the many, highly diverse types of…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Information Processing
An Extension of Four Single-Cue Process Models to Conjunctive Concept Learning
Deffenbacher, Kenneth A. – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Information Processing, Learning Processes
A Comparison of Conjunctive and Disjunctive Concept Identification
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Eifermann, Rivka; Steinitz, Ruth – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation