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Anyan, Walter R., Jr.; Quillian, Warren W., II – Child Development, 1971
In the fifth and sixth years of life, the ability of girls to identify primary colors by name is greater than that of boys. Children in the sixth year who attend school outperform those who have not been to school, and girls of this age who have not been to school name colors as well as boys who attend school. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Females, Males
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Buchanan, 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
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Costanzo, 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
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Bragg, 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
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Murrell, Stanley A. – Child Development, 1971
Members of Average (adjustment) Families made decisions faster and talked more equally to one another than members of Low (adjustment) Families and had higher normality scores than either High or Lows. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Data Analysis, Family Characteristics, Family Involvement
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Shantz, 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
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Wolf, Thomas M.; Cheyne, J. Allan – Child Development, 1972
Live behavioral and televised behavioral models were the most effective, and live verbal models were the least effective. The effects of the deviant models were more stable over time than the effects of the conforming models. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Conformity, Elementary School Students
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Bryan, James H. – Child Development, 1971
An investigation of immediate and delayed vicarious reinforcements upon children's imitative self-sacrificing behavior. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Altruism, Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis
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Blair, John Raymond – Child Development, 1972
Results indicated that the normal achievers learned more effectively under person and performance reinforcement than under tangible reinforcement, whereas the reverse was true for low achievers. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Grade 3
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Heilbrun, Alfred B., Jr. – Child Development, 1972
A developmental model for paranoid behavior has been proposed which postulates that the attempt to adapt to sustained aversive maternal control by manipulative social approach behaviors (open adaptive style) leaves the person vulnerable to emerging paranoid tendencies. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Developmental Psychology, Males
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Denney, Douglas R. – Child Development, 1972
Performance demonstrated that the conceptual style and cognitive tempo of the model changed the styles and tempos of the Ss and that these effects generalized to independent tasks. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Grade 2, Males
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Bernstein, Alan; Luria, Zella – Child Development, 1972
Results are discussed in terms of possible perceptual and mnemonic devices used for recall. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Color, Data Analysis
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Denney, Douglas R. – Child Development, 1972
Results lend support to the notion that children at different ages are differentially responsive to various conceptual-strategy models. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary School Students
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Lerner, Richard M.; Korn, Sam J. – Child Development, 1972
Results indicated that at all age levels Ss held a predominantly favorable view of the mesomorph, a markedly unfavorable view of the endomorph, and a somewhat less negative but still unfavorable view of the ectomorph. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Groups, Attitude Measures, Developmental Psychology, Identification (Psychology)
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Satz, Paul; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Behavioral pattern of deficits observed in dyslexic children is quite similar to adults who have sustained damage to the left cerebral hemisphere. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cerebral Dominance, Child Development, Dyslexia
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