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Carpenter, Patricia A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported in part by U.S. Public Health Service, National Institute of Mental Health. (DD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedTennyson, Robert D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Results indicated that negative instances were an integral part of concept acquisiton. The relationship between the positive and negative instances was based upon similarity of irrelevant attributes and sentence difficulty. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Grade 7, Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Peer reviewedCampbell, Susan B. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
These data support the notion that amount of maternal involvement in task solution is determined partly by task difficulty and the child's ability to complete the tasks presented. (Author)
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Difficulty Level, Hyperactivity, Males
Peer reviewedClifford, Margaret M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
The extent to which performance is a function of interest will be dependent upon (a) the nature of the task per se (e.g., complex vs. simple); (b) the conditions for task specification (e.g., imposed vs. selected); and (c) characteristics of the performer (e.g., high internality vs. low internality). (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Difficulty Level, Learning
Peer reviewedShoemaker, David M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1972
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Error of Measurement, Item Sampling, Simulation
Fleming, James T. – Elementary English, 1971
Report on a doctoral dissertation concerned with the problem of whether children self-select reading material that corresponds with their ability to read. (RB)
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedDeutsch, Francine; Stein, Aletha H. – Human Development, 1972
The present study was an attempt to investigate two motivational interpretations of earlier findings that private speech increases with task difficulty. (Authors)
Descriptors: Child Language, Child Responsibility, Difficulty Level, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedHamilton, Vernon – British Journal of Psychology, 1972
The present study, and the development of the instrument for the measurement of conservation, arose in the context of wishing to demonstrate finely discriminating individual differences in this cognitive capacity. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Psychology, Difficulty Level
Phelan, Joseph G. – J Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Psychological Characteristics
Peer reviewedResnick, Lauren B.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Difficulty Level, Kindergarten Children, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedZelkind, Irving; Bachhuber, Mary – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Difficulty Level, Geometric Concepts
Blasi, E. R.; And Others – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Design, Difficulty Level, Discrimination Learning, Measurement Instruments
O'Neil, Harold, F., Jr.; and others – J Educ Psychol, 1969
Paper based on this research was presented at the 1968 American Educational Research Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois. Paper supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education.
Descriptors: Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction, Difficulty Level, Learning Problems
Peer reviewedCaron, Rose F.; And Others – Child Development, 1982
To determine whether infants can form face expression categories, groups of infants 18 to 24 weeks old, along with those 30 weeks old, were habituated by the infant control procedure to photographs of four different female faces, each with an identical expression (happiness or surprise). Results are discussed in terms of age and sex differences.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Classification, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedAponik, David Allen; Dembo, Myron H. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1983
An investigation of the causal attributions of success and failure performances on various levels of task difficulty by 36 learning disabled and 36 nondisabled adolescents revealed that Ss' perceptions of the task difficulty levels were significant determinants of the two groups' differing causal attributions. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Difficulty Level, Failure
