Performance on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised was compared for reflective and impulsive children, aged 8-11. Reflective children scored higher on the attention-concentration and visual organization subtests. There were no significant differences in verbal comprehension. (Author/GDC)

Explored the relationship among conceptual tempo, age, sex, and performance of preschool children on the visual association subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. (Author/DB)

Verbal self-instruction was employed in training impulsive first-grade children to perform visual discrimination matching tasks. Posttests, following the four training conditions, showed that while strategy training increased latency, self verbalization both increased latency and reduced errors. (Author/DEP)

Two techniques were used to modify an impulsive conceptual tempo on a visual discrimination task. The subjects were 42 first grade white children who had previously been classified as impulsive or near-impulsive on the Matching Familiar Figures Test given to 82 children. These subjects, who had scored above the median on errors and below the…