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Sequence Learning with Stochastic Feedback in a Cross-Cultural Sample of Boys in the Autistic Spectrum
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Hentschel, Maren; Lange-Kuttner, Christiane; Averbeck, Bruno B. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
The study investigated sequence learning from stochastic feedback in boys with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and typically developed (TD) boys. We asked boys with ASD from Nigeria and the UK as well as age- and gender-matched controls (also males only) to deduce a sequence of four left and right button presses, LLRR, RRLL, LRLR, RLRL, LRRL and…
Descriptors: Males, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Foreign Countries
Social Motives among Anglo American and Mexican American Children: Experimental and Projective Measures.
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Kagan, Spencer; Knight, George P. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1981
Tested Anglo American and Mexican American children for how competitiveness is related to achievement, cooperativeness is related to affiliation, and the cultural differences in cooperation-competition are related to those in affiliation and achievement. Results indicate that large cultural differences in cooperation-competition are not explained…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Affiliation Need, Anglo Americans, Children
"Draw-A-Person" as a Reliable Test for Deaf Children: Cross-Cultural and Deaf-Hearing Comparisons.
Zwiebel, Avraham; Wolff, Anthony B. – ACEHI Journal, 1988
The study compared results of rating "Draw a Person" drawings of 250 deaf Israeli children aged 7-15 with those of 54 American deaf children of the same ages and 100 hearing Israeli children. Implications of the findings concerning instrument reliability, emotional development in deaf children, and cross-cultural aspects are considered.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences