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Cox, M. V. – 1977
The study reported in this paper traces the nature of the changes which take place as the child gradually acquires perspective-taking skills. The results indicate that at first the young child can correctly represent only the location of the object nearest another observer; later, he can correctly represent a before-behind relationship between…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Psychology, Children
Terrill, Marilyn J. – 1978
The process of assertive behavior change of college women who received assertion training (AT) and cognitive restructuring was examined to assess the relative effects of different durations of exposure to cognitive restructuring. Undergraduate and graduate women students (N=27) at a state university volunteered and were screened for AT groups.…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development
McWhirter, Elizabeth P. – 1979
Interpretation of experimental tasks is influenced by knowledge of the language used, by assessment of what the experimenter intends, and by how subjects themselves would normally represent the physical situation. Whether these processes in which children engage in cognitive studies differ from those employed by adults in similar tasks was…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children
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Friedman, Martha – Family Coordinator, 1975
An academic course in family life-sex education is described in the context of a unique treatment setting for those diagnosed as schizophrenic. Asserts that this population is intellectually and academically able to profit from a cognitive experience. The course also offers positive value as an adjunct therapeutic modality. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Family Life Education, Humanistic Education
Henker, Barbara A.; Whalen, Carol K. – 1971
This report summarizes four components of a research program. In the major investigation (Study 1), a method was developed for making bimodal presentations of discrepant auditory and visual stimuli under conditions which approximately early academic tasks. The goals were to determine (1) which stimulus modality exerts the greater influence on a…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Autism, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Blaut, J. M. – 1971
A research project of environmental learning in children is discussed. Most of the studies conducted during the research involved observation of children aged 3-12, in mapping and free environmental behavior, and in curricular experiments using perceptual surrogates for map-learning and macro-environmental conceptualization in the lower elementary…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation