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An Investigation of an Early College Entrance Program's Ability to Impact Intellectual and Social Development
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Wu, Jiaju; Assouline, Susan; McClurg, Virginia M.; McCallum, R. Steve – Roeper Review, 2022
Self-reported perceptions of the impact of acceleration through an early college entrance program at the University of Iowa National Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (NAASE), revealed the program's contribution to students' overall development. Responses from a sample of 76-gifted participants to a 64-item survey offered insights about…
Descriptors: Early Admission, Acceleration (Education), Student Attitudes, Transitional Programs
Finding the "Prism": Understanding Vygotsky's "Perezhivanie" as an Ontogenetic Unit of Child Consciousness
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Michell, Michael – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2016
The concept of perezhivanie, Vygotsky's "last word" on psychology, has been among the most difficult of his theoretical constructs to define and operationalise in research. Drawing on close analysis of key texts, this article identifies and examines three defining attributes of "perezhivanie" found throughout Vygotsky's works.…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Intellectual Development, Perception
Individual-Level Risk Factors of Incarcerated Youth
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Pyle, Nicole; Flower, Andrea; Fall, Anna Mari; Williams, Jacob – Remedial and Special Education, 2016
This systematic review sought to understand the individual characteristics of incarcerated youth within the major risk factor domains identified by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). A comprehensive search of the literature from 1979 to 2013 identified 85 articles of individual-level risk characteristics that…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Youth, At Risk Persons
Feedback Effects on Spatial Egocentrism in Old Age
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Schultz, Norman R., Jr.; Hoyer, William J. – Journal of Gerontology, 1976
Elderly men (N=18) and elderly women (N=18) were assigned to three treatment conditions: feedback, practice, or control. Subjects were post-tested on measures of spatial egocentrism, fluid intelligence, perceptual speed, and volume conservation. The effect of feedback was to improve scores on spatial egocentrism, but this influence did not…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Egocentrism, Feedback, Intellectual Development
"The Development of Pragmatic and Non-pragmatic Motivation" (Commentary On).
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Harris, P. – Human Development, 1995
Suggests that while doubting that the dichotomy introduced by Subbotsky can cover the entire domain of motivation, he should applaud the emphasis on the neglected but critical importance of motivation in developmental psychology, and the attempt to distinguish different types of motivation, even as contributors to a single behavior. (AA)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cultural Influences
The Development of Pragmatic and Non-pragmatic Motivation.
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Subbotsky, E. – Human Development, 1995
Examines two different types of human motivation, pragmatic and nonpragmatic. Experimental studies in preschool-age children in both the former Soviet Union and Western cultures are presented. Suggests that the two contrasting conceptions of human motivation lead to totally different practical strategies for transforming human motivation in…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cultural Influences