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National Center for Health Statistics (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1979
Age and sex distributions of weight by single inches of height for adults 18-74 years of age in the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States are given for the period 1971-1974. Discussion is made concerning the comparison of the results of this survey with those of previous surveys. (LH)
Descriptors: Age, Body Height, Body Weight, Height
Koff, Robert H. – 1967
The present paper presents a discussion of certain dimensions of cognitive style that are subsumed under the theoretical formulation of cognitive control theory. An overview of cognitive-control theory is presented first. Second, the cognitive control principle of tolerance for unrealistic experience is then defined and the relevant literature is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Personality Theories, Self Congruence
Harris, Mary B.; Fisher, Judith L. – 1973
In order to discover the effects of success and failure on subsequent aggressiveness, 26 male and 55 female college students were randomly assigned to success, failure, and neutral conditions. Those in the success condition were led to feel they were superior to other college students on a task, those in the failure condition were led to feel they…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Failure
Tucker, Ledyard R. – 1970
Two lines of psychometric interest are combined: a) multidimensional scaling and, b) factor analysis. This is achieved by employing three-mode factor analysis of scalar product matrices, one for each subject. Two of the modes are the group of objects scaled and the third is the sample of subjects. Resulting from this are, an object space, a person…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Individual Differences, Interest Inventories, Models
Kerst, Stephen; Levin, Joel R. – 1973
A paired-associate task was given to 119 middle-class fourth and fifth graders to investigate the nature and development of mediational strategies in children's learning. Imagery and sentence mediators which linked the stimuli and responses of pictorial paired associates were either provided by an experimenter or generated by the children. While…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Individual Differences, Learning Processes, Paired Associate Learning
Di Vesta, Francis J. – 1974
The Trait Treatment Interaction (TTI) Process approach is particularly adapted to the study of information-processing by receivers of information presented in the media. Differences in people's experiences do lead to different cognitive structures. Different people use the same machinery of perceiving, coding, storing, and retrieving. Neverthless,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Information Processing
Riegel, Klaus F. – 1973
Arguments for an extension of Piaget's theory of cognitive development have been derived from philosophical and historical considerations of modern natural science. Implicit contradictions, which characterize these sciences as well as common thought, can be systematically apprehended only through a dialectic reinterpretation. The dialectic basis…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
Frost, Joe – 1972
Four types of classrooms are described in relation to individual child development, particularly the learning aspect of development. The first type of classroom is the normative grade school, which operates on the premise that people should be essentially alike rather than different. The second classroom is the behavioral competency school, which…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Design, Early Childhood Education, Educational Theories
Stayton, Donelda J.; Ainsworth, Mary D. Salter
Individual differences in four separation-related behaviors, protest, following, and positive greetings or crying on reunion, were examined for 26 infants observed intensively at home during the fourth quarter-year, and considered in relation to one another, to other infant behaviors, and to maternal behavior. Contrary to Freudian and other…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Infant Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Security
Judd, Wilson A.; And Others – 1973
An examination of the relationship between response latency during paired-associate learning and the subsequent retention in a computer assisted instruction (CAI) program was conducted in this experiment. Forty-five college students were presented nonsense syllables that had to be associated with key symbols on a response panel. The experiment…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Individual Differences, Reaction Time, Recall (Psychology)
Levin, Joel R. – 1971
Psychological experiments investigating imposed and induced cognitive strategies are reviewed and related to operations in reading comprehension. It has been suggested that comprehension differences between good and poor readers may arise from the way in which they habitually organize intra- and inter-sentence elements during input.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Psychological Studies, Reading Ability
Turner, Barbara F. – 1971
This study investigated the relationship of race and sex to college students' perceptions of occupational discrimination against blacks and against women. Blacks perceived more discrimination against black people than did whites. Black females perceived more discrimination against women than did either black males or white males. White females,…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Individual Differences, Racial Differences, Racial Discrimination
BETTS, MARY L.B. – 1966
THIS STUDY CONSISTED OF A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS DESIGNED TO YIELD DATA ON THE PARAMETERS OF LEARNING IN THESE SITUATIONS--(1) THE QUANTITY OF MATERIAL TO BE LEARNED WAS GREATER THAN USUAL, AND (2) THE SCHEDULING OF LEARNING, REVIEW TRIALS, AND THE AMOUNTS OF MATERIAL PRESENTED WERE VARIED WITHIN A DESIGN JUDGED TO APPROACH OPTIMAL SCHEDULING IN…
Descriptors: Ability, College Students, Individual Differences, Learning
Persico, Barbara; And Others – 1975
The present study examines the reactions to injustice between individuals as a function of the race and sex of the subject. Two contrasting hypotheses derived from research on altruism and personality differences indicate that white females/black males and white males/black females differ in their response to inequity. The study supports the…
Descriptors: Altruism, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Justice
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Penk, W. E.; Robinowitz, R. – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1976
This study assesses effects of volunteering on results of investigations of drug abuse. (Editor)
Descriptors: Drug Education, Individual Differences, Personality Assessment, Psychopathology
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