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Braverman, Marc; Lehman, Rosemary – 1981
A study of the cognitive aspects of children's television watching addressed the following questions: To what degree is processing capability mediated by one's attentional set, as opposed to skills that one brings to the viewing situation? If attention is a significant mediating factor, is this true across various kinds of information one can…
Descriptors: Attention, Characterization, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Holtzman, Wayne H. – 1982
To further investigate the relationship between divergent thinking and bilingualism, 23 Anglos and 108 Mexican Americans from a semi-rural West Texas community and 24 Mexican Americans from San Antonio, enrolled in the fourth grade, of low socioeconomic status, and with an average age of 10 years 6 months, were divided into 5 experimental groups,…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
Enright, Robert D.; And Others – 1980
A paired-comparisons measure of distributive justice development, the Distributive Justice Scale (DJS), was developed and validated in four studies. Pictures were drawn to represent the different stages of distributive justice for a given dilemma and the DJS was scored by selecting the child's preferred stage via the picture comparisons for each…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Measures, Correlation, Cultural Differences