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Incentive Effects in Children's Creativity
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Ward, William C.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Data provide evidence for the situational invariance of individual differences, and for the greater importance of capacity than of motivational variables in accounting for such differences. (Authors)
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Research, Data Analysis, Divergent Thinking
Congruence among Four Methods of Measuring Other-Centeredness
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dlugokinski, Eric; Firestone, Ira J. – Child Development, 1973
This research demonstrates significant but moderate association among 4 methods of measuring other-centeredness, including behavioral, cognitive, valuative, and peer-rating measures. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Altruism, Grade 5, Grade 8
Learned Helplessness, Test Anxiety, and Academic Achievement: A Longitudinal Analysis.
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Fincham, Frank D.; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Examines the stability of individual differences in test anxiety and learned helplessness of 82 children in third grade and later in fifth grade. Results indicate that teacher reports of helplessness had the strongest and most consistent relation to concurrent achievement and to achievement test scores two years later. (RJC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
The Development of Perspective Taking: Understanding Differences in Information and Weighting.
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Dixon, James A.; Moore, Colleen F. – Child Development, 1990
Examined preschoolers' and second and fifth graders' development of two types of perspective taking: (1) perspective taking based on differences in the information available to two people; and (2) perspective taking based on differences in weighting the same information. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students