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Chatham, Christopher H.; Yerys, Benjamin E.; Munakata, Yuko – Cognitive Development, 2012
Computational models are powerful tools--too powerful, according to some. We argue that the idea that models can "do anything" is wrong, and we describe how their failures have been informative. We present new work showing surprising diversity in the effects of feedback on children's task-switching, such that some children perseverate despite this…
Descriptors: Failure, Computation, Models, Neurology
Prendergast, Kathleen; Stone, Mark – 1990
This paper integrates the interpersonal model of Schutz (1966) and Schutz's (1978) instrument for evaluating interpersonal relationships, FIRO-B (Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation-Behavior), with Adler's life tasks and typology. The paper begins with a description of Schutz's Interpersonal model in which Schutz, like Adler, views…
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Interpersonal Relationship, Models
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Bloch, Henriette – Child Development, 2000
Notes that the Piagetian perspective admits the existence of interindividual differences but interprets them as noise masking the universal logical succession of structures, whereas the differential perspective views development as consisting of "vicarious processes." Asserts that the main aim of the "procedural studies"…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks
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Schlesinger, Hilde S. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2000
This "classic" article (1972) in the field of deaf studies includes some interpretive notes for current readers. The article examines the effect of deafness on basic developmental tasks at each of the eight developmental stages of Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development and explains the more successful passage through these…
Descriptors: Child Development, Deafness, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages
Pollman, Mary Jo; Roberts, Leonard – 1991
Several conditions, identified by Cambourne (1988) as contributing to children becoming successful language users, have been simulated in Australian schools in order for children to feel self-assured in mastering writing and reading just as these conditions have promoted the developmental process of talking in the home. The conditions are:…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Tasks, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Super, Donald E. – 1985
One of the new dimensions of vocational and career counseling is the recognition of the continuity in careers. Despite periods of unemployment and despite a radical change of occupations, the person having these experiences of change is still the same person. Although a career involves the life pursuits of a person, there are several differing…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adults