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Dixon, James A.; Tuccillo, Frank – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Three hypotheses were tested about how children and adults construct intuitive models when encountering a new property. Causal models showed that 10-, 13-, and 19-year-olds transferred principles from familiar property to novel property. None used default model. Younger children's models were affected by domain. Findings suggest that the transfer…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
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Cummings, William H., III – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1995
Reports results of analyses of key tables in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Atlas of Type Tables. Significant age group effects on every dimension indicates the need to reestimate population norms for each continuum on the MBTI for interpreting scores of people of various ages. (LKS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Effect Size, Extraversion Introversion, Individual Development
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Moore, Colleen F.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Examined the development of proportional reasoning by means of a temperature mixture task. Results show the importance of distinguishing between intuitive knowledge and formal computational knowledge of proportional concepts. Provides a new perspective on the relation of intuitive and computational knowledge during development. (GLR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students, Computation