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Age Differences in Time Estimation and Their Relationship to Prospective Memory

Description: This paper discusses a study conducted with 34 elderly volunteers and 34 young subjects to determine the differences in time estimation by age and their reflection in prospective memory. Kirk Rowe explains the reproduction, production, and numerical estimation tasks carried out, the scores of the subjects, and the findings of the study.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Rowe, Kirk
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The Effects of Just World Beliefs and Behavioral vs. Characterological Self-Blame on College Student’s Functioning Following Parental Divorce

Description: This paper discusses the impact of self-blame on college students who have experienced parental divorce and determines whether separating this blame into behavioral and characterological manifestations can provide useful information for research purposes. Bryce E. Taylor explains the study that was conducted with 220 female college students who completed questionnaires for the project, and the results of the study.
Date: September 1991
Creator: Taylor, Bryce E.
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Evaluation of Self-Perception in ACHD Children

Description: Only a limited amount of research exists which addresses low self-esteem, poor self-concept, and distorted self-image in ADHD children. The most urgent task is to test assumptions regarding self-perception and to assess the dimensions of self-concept of ADHD children. The Self-Perception Profile for Children (Harter, 1985) was used in the proposed study to assess those dimensions. Subjects of this study are 8- to 12- year-old boys diagnosed with ADHD and the same age boys who exhibit no symptom… more
Date: 1991
Creator: Walters, Pace Jill
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Perception of Punitive Childhood Experiences, Adult Coping Mechanisms and Psychological Distress

Description: Differences in college student's psychological well-being, extrapunitiveness, and intropunitiveness were related to the presence or absence of maltreatment during childhood years, and its acknowledgement by the student. Subjects were 56 male and 85 female undergraduate students at the University of North Texas. Subjects were given structural scale v.3 of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI), the Extrapunitive (E), and Intropunitive (I) indices of the Hostility-Direction of Hostility Que… more
Date: December 1991
Creator: McCune, Linda Wheeler
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