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Peer reviewedGrant, Richard A. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
The relation between Matching Familiar Figures Test performance and Piaget's construct of perceptual activity was examined with 48 third- and fourth-grade boys. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Perceptual Development, Research
Peer reviewedAult, Ruth L.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Elementary School Students, Eye Movements, Grade 3
Schroeder, David H. – 1989
This study assessed the bipolarity of cognitive style for 970 clients of the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, a vocational guidance service. The 462 male and 508 female examinees were aged 14 to 65 years, with a median age of 24 years. Three cognitive style tests were investigated: (1) the Kagan Matching Familiar Figures Test (KMFFT); (2) the…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Cognitive Style
Peer reviewedKennedy, Cynthia Bellows; Butter, Eliot J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
The Matching Familiar Figures Test and the Auditory Impulsivity Task were administered to 81 fourth-grade students. Fifty-five percent of the students maintained classifications as reflective, impulsive, fast-accurate, or slow-inaccurate across the two modalities, indicating that the two tasks measured different abilities. The authors suggest that…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedButter, Eliot J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Children were individually administered the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) Test and the Haptic Matching Task. Impulsives received either reflective scanning strategy training or control procedures and were retested. Visual training decreased errors only on the MFF and increased latency on both tasks. Haptic training decreased errors and increased…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Learning Modalities
Direct linkMahone, E. Mark – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2005
The goal of this review of the clinical and research literature is to identify, describe, and critique published methods for assessment of attention and related functions in preschool children (ages 6 and younger). The need for valid assessment of preschool children has grown dramatically in the past two decades following the implementation of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Attention Span, Literature Reviews, Evaluation Methods
