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Peer reviewedRuble, Diane N. – Child Development, 1975
Subjects in kindergarten through 5th grade were classified as task oriented, information seeking or cue dependent. Then an experiment was performed to investigate relationships between these predispositions and the children's performance and self-perceptions as they worked on an external-cue-relevant or cue-irrelevant concept identification task.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Goal Orientation, Self Evaluation, Task Performance
Peer reviewedEldred, Carolyn A. – Child Development, 1973
Results reveal a relationship between two previously explored areas of inquiry: orientation errors in copying and preferences for the orientation of nonrealistic shapes. (Author)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Error Patterns, Human Body, Space Orientation
Peer reviewedShantz, Carolyn U.; Watson, John S. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Expectation, Prediction, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedNakamura, Charles Y.; Finck, Doris – Child Development, 1973
Results indicated that it is possible to distinguish children on predispositions such as social and task orientation and self-assurance sufficiently well to predict their behavior in certain specific situations. (Authors)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Evaluation, Orientation, Predictive Measurement
Peer reviewedStrayer, Janet; Ames, Elinor W. – Child Development, 1972
Aim of the present study was to clarify the processes involved in the apparent lag in copying a diamond by reducing the lag experimentally with perceptual training of discrimination of orientation. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Discrimination Learning, Orientation
Peer reviewedBrodzinsky, David M.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Results are discussed in terms of variables which may lead to the activation of cognitive structures during the transitional period. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cues, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedZung, Burton J. – Child Development, 1971
Results reaffirm the notion that retarded individuals are less adept at recognizing familiar forms haptically than visually. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns, Handicapped Children
