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Matching Familiar Figures Test

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Misgivings about the Matching Familiar Figures Test: Premature or Overdue?

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Block, Jack – Developmental Psychology, 1987

Responds to the arguments and evidence adduced by Kagan (1987) in his reply to the Block, Gjerde, and Block (1986) study questioning the validity of the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT) as a measure of "reflection-impulsivity." (Author)

Descriptors: Character Recognition, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Conceptual Tempo

Longitudinally Foretelling Drug Usage in Adolescence: Early Childhood Personality and Environmental Precursors

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Block, Jack; And Others – Child Development, 1988

Findings indicate drug usage in early adolescence is related to concurrent, as well as preschool, personality characteristics. Personality concomitants and antecedents of drug use differ somewhat as a function of gender and drug used. (PCB)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Use, Family Environment, Longitudinal Studies