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Cunningham, William G. – American Educational Research Journal, 1975
The benefits students derive from learning experiences is dependent upon the match between their learning styles and the teaching styles of their instructors. (BJG)
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Learning, Primary Education, Student Characteristics
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Horowitz, Francis Degan, Ed. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1974
Presents nine experimental studies investigating auditory and visual discrimination in very young infants. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding habituation, cross-modal stimulation, receptive language development, and individual differences. Appendices include data on visual fixation duration and information on…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infants
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Gheorghiu, V. A.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1975
A scale was prepared for measuring the effects of indirect suggestion upon perception. Three categories were included: 1) distorting the interpretation of presented stimuli, 2) inducing sense-impressions in the absence of adequate stimuli, and 3) producing insensitivity to stimuli that are objectively present. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Attention, Factor Analysis, Individual Differences, Item Analysis
Denison, Joseph W. – J Sch Psychol, 1968
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Individual Differences, Learning, Perception
Soar, Robert S.; Soar, Ruth M. – Educ Leadership, 1969
From Educational Leadership Research Supplement, volume 2, number 4, March 1969. Investigation supported by U.S. Public Health Service Grants, 5-R11 MH 01096 and 7-R11 MH 02045.
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students
Lansman, Marcy; Hunt, Earl – 1981
This report summarizes the research results and provides a reference. The basic question addressed was, "Is performance on multi-component tasks predicted by performance on the individual components performed separately?" In the first series of experiments, a dual task involving memory and verbal processing components to predict a…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences
Treiber, Frank Anton – 1981
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether temperament differences exist between infants who completed a visual perceptual/cognitive experiment and those who did not. A total of 14 Caucasian infants ranging in age from 5-15 months participated in the study. The subjects were placed in one of two groups (completers vs. noncompleters)…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Infants, Parent Attitudes, Personality
Van Kleeck, Ann; Street, Richard – 1981
Four normal 3 1/2-year-old preschool girls who varied in degree of talkativeness were observed in a semi-naturalistic setting in order to determine the existence and nature of linguistic differences in their interactions with adults. Adult conversational partners who participated in the study were 28 college-educated females who spoke American…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Females
Stewart, Murray F.; Leaman, Hayden L. – 1981
A study designed to examine the differences in quality ratings that 20 teachers in each of three senior high school curricular areas (business, English/social studies, and mathematics/science) gave to samples of written argument by college freshmen also investigated the relationship between the three groups of quality ratings and eight syntactic…
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Teacher Attitudes
Wright, Donald K. – 1978
Despite a strong concern for ethical and responsible journalism, journalists themselves disagree as to whether their practice is a profession and if it is, which of the many definitions of "profession" describes it. Judged according to the following criteria sometimes used to describe other professions, journalism cannot be classified as a…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Individual Differences, Journalism, Moral Values
Birky, Ian T. – 1980
Heretofore, researchers have perceived women as the ones concerned with having children, generally excluding males from their samples. In order to look at male attitudes on childbearing, an investigation was conducted on personality differences between childless males preferring children within five years of marriage and those preferring to delay…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Consumer Economics, Family Planning
KELLY, FRANCIS J. – 1965
THE LACK OF CONSENSUS AMONG MEDICAL-LEGAL AUTHORITIES AS TO THE MEANING OF DELINQUENCY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF DELINQUENT CHILDREN IS DESCRIBED. THIS CONFLICT IS GENERAL IN THAT THE LEGAL DEFINITION EMPHASIZES BEHAVIOR AND ACTION WHILE THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFINITION EMPHASIZES THE ENDOPSYCHIC CONFLICT AND NEED MOTIVATING THE BEHAVIOR. EMPHASIS IS…
Descriptors: Classification, Delinquency, Delinquency Causes, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Schunk, Dale H. – 1981
The present experiment tested the hypothesis that effort attribution given for prior achievement is effective in promoting subsequent achievement behaviors. Forty children drawn from two elementary schools and lacking in subtraction skills received training and opportunities to solve subtraction problems. In the context of training, children…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Difficulty Level
Feldman, Robert S.; White, John B. – 1980
This study examines the possibility that ability to avoid detection of deceptive behavior via nonverbal behavior might be related to an individual's role-taking skill. Sixty-one 5 to 12 year-old boys and girls were led to be verbally deceptive or truthful by saying that they either had enjoyed or not enjoyed an unpleasant experience or had enjoyed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Individual Differences, Nonverbal Communication
Sherman, Barbara; Baptiste, H. Prentice, Jr. – 1974
This module is designed to aid the fifth-grade teacher in implementing a self-awareness program to develop positive self-images among his or her pupils. Terminal and performance objectives for students are described, and activities leading to the realization of those objectives are suggested. The materials necessary for each activity are listed. A…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Individual Differences, Multicultural Education, Observational Learning
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