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Kail, Robert – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Equally divided by sex and distributed equally across fourth/fifth, eighth/ninth, and college grade levels, 144 subjects performed a mental rotation task under instructions emphasizing either accuracy or speed of response, or both. Instructions had large and consistent effects on speed of response but were not as uniformly effective in their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Preadolescents, Reaction Time
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Jarrold, Christopher; Butler, David W.; Cottington, Emily M.; Jimenez, Flora – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Three experiments investigated whether theory-of-mind deficits and weak central coherence might be functionally related. Found that theory-of-mind performance was inversely related to a measure of central coherence bias in the general population. Poor theory-of-mind performance was linked to weak central coherence among children with typical…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Autism, Beliefs, Bias