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Peer reviewedBuchanan, James P.; Thompson, Spencer K. – Child Development, 1973
Unlike Piaget's clinical procedure, the experiment's methodology allowed substantiation of the ability of children to simultaneously weigh damage and intent information when making a moral judgment. Other advantages of this quantitative methodology are also presented. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, Males, Moral Development
Peer reviewedJeffrey, D. Balfour; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Data clearly supported the major hypotheses concerning the superiority of contingent reinforcement over nurturance in facilitiating imitation. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, Identification (Psychology), Imitation
Peer reviewedWilloughby, Robert H. – Child Development, 1973
Primary purpose of the study was to ascertain the effectiveness of different methods of training children to solve the two-choice conditional matching problem. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedIanco-Worrall, Anita D. – Child Development, 1972
Conclusion drawn is that bilinguals, brought up in a one-person, one-language home environment, reach a stage in semantic development some 2-3 years earlier than their unilingual peers. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedCostanzo, Philip R.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Findings suggest that age differences in the use of intention in evaluating another are a function of the valence of the other's act; and that social perspectivism increased with age regardless of the kind of consequences involved. (Atuhors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedAdams, Wayne V. – Child Development, 1972
The interaction between age and conceptual tempo was a consistently significant finding. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedHennings, James S., S. J.; Kornreich, L. Berell – Child Development, 1971
Finding supports the educational theory and practices of Montessori educators. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedGutkin, Daniel C. – Child Development, 1972
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Item Analysis, Moral Values
Peer reviewedBragg, Barry W. E.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
An analysis of the type and frequency of the different persuasive appeals indicated the major differences were due to the age of the target and not the birth order of the subject. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age, Birth Order, Elementary School Students, Males
Peer reviewedThelen, Mark H.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
With no expectancy to perform, vicarious reward had no effect on spontaneous imitation. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, Expectation, Imitation
Peer reviewedHartmann, Donald P.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Although Ss underestimated the size of the illusion in the predicted direction, no significant correlations between size of illusion and either age or IQ were found. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Intelligence
Peer reviewedRuble, Diane N.; Nakamura, Charles Y. – Child Development, 1972
Results supported the expectations regarding field dependence-independence but failed to support those regarding sex differences. (Authors)
Descriptors: Attention, Cues, Elementary School Students, Responses
Peer reviewedScholnick, Ellin Kobsky – Child Development, 1971
Experiment examined the generality of dimensional and cue-location biases in inference and role of directness of information. (Author)
Descriptors: Bias, Concept Formation, Cues, Dimensional Preference
Peer reviewedSabo, Ruth A.; Hagen, John W. – Child Development, 1973
Study was designed to investigate the effects of color cues and of subject-employed strategies in the development of selective attention in a short-term memory task. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Color, Cues
Peer reviewedShantz, David W.; Voydanoff, Douglas A. – Child Development, 1973
Major Purpose of the study was to investigate the extent to which aggressive retaliation in boys at three age levels is influenced by two dimensions of hypothetical provocation: accidental versus intentional and verbal versus physical. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
