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Inductions from novel categories: The role of language and conceptual structure
(Elsevier, 1990-04)
Young children expect members of a familiar category to share nonobvious properties. The present experiments were designed to determine whether children expect unfamiliar objects with the same novel label to share nonobvious ...
Toward a broader conceptualization of development: The role of gains and losses across the life span
(Elsevier, 1989-06)
Developmental psychologists traditionally have conceived of childhood primarily as a time of positive change, or gain, and old age primarily as a time of negative change, or loss. Life-span developmental psychologists ...
Selective information use and perseveration in the search behavior of infants and young children
(Elsevier, 1983-06)
Two experiments examined the early development of selective information use in search. The first experiment tested 9- and 16-month-olds on a modification of Piaget's Stage IV object permanence task. It examined infants' ...
Diagnosis and Assessment of Depression and Suicidality Using the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC-2.3)
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-06)
The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC-2.3) was studied in a sample of 265 adolescent inpatients to determine type and concurrent validity of depressive symptoms and depressive disorder diagnoses for different ...
Clinical Equivalence of Generic Clozapine
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-08)
Objective: To determine if mental health service utilization increases when patients are converted to generic clozapine.
Defensible Preferences and the Public: Commentary on “Measuring Constructed Preferences Towards a Building Code” by Payne, Bettman and Schkade
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-12)
Alcohol abuse among clinically anxious patients
(Elsevier, 1986)
Of 156 patients meeting DSM-III criteria for either agoraphobia with panic attacks, panic disorder, simple or social phobia, or generalized anxiety disorder, 27 (17.3%) were found to score in the alcoholic range ([ges] 5) ...
Religious Activity and Risk Behavior Among African American Adolescents: Concurrent and Developmental Effects
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-06)
This study examines how religious activity is associated with risk behaviors, concurrently and developmentally among urban African American adolescents. Seven hundred and five African American youths were interviewed ...
Taking aim on empowerment research: On the distinction between individual and psychological conceptions
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-02)
Empowerment theory need not remain a mystery. Efforts, such as those described in this special section, to outline more clearly the nomological network of empowerment at multiple levels of analysis will advance empowerment ...
Leisure Behavior Pattern Stability During the Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-02)
Leisure is an important context in which human development occurs. Changes in leisure behavior patterns may indicate changing developmental needs or reflect contextual changes that impact leisure behavior. The transition ...