Conceptual sorting and personality adjustment in children.

Kennedy, Kieran; Kates, Solis L.

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“…-7-Various classification systems are available for scoring the bases for groupings in object-sorting tasks (see Kogan, 1971). For example, Kennedy and Kates (1964) and Rapaport, Gill, and Schafer (1945) have proposed schemes based on the adequacy and level of abstraction of groupings, respectively. Such schemes obviously make distinctions along a quality dimension, and hence run counter to the present study's purpose of characterizing classification behavior in more stylistic and value-free terms.…”

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Categorizing and Conceptualizing Styles in Younger and Older Adults

Kogan¹

1974

Human Development

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The classification behavior of male and female college students was compared with that of healthy, well-educated older males and females. Object-sorting and photo-sorting (male and female faces) procedures were employed. On measures of categorizing style – conceptual differentiation and compartmentalization – older adults were, respectively, lower and higher than college students. On measures of conceptualizing style – categorical-inferential, analytic-descriptive, and relational thematic – younger adults exhibited stronger preferences for the first two, older adults for the third. Five content categories for sorting human faces were derived – physical, age, psychological, demographic, and preferential. No systematic age or sex differences for sorting male photos were obtained. For female photos, however, age and sex differences were observed. On the whole, the results failed to confirm other published evidence maintaining that aging is marked by conceptual deficits or a regressed mode of cognitive functioning.

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Categorizing and Conceptualizing Styles in Younger and Older Adults

Kogan¹

1974

Human Development

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“…In agreement with the observation of Rapaport et al (1945), the thinking processes in grouping such pictures are quite vulnerable to emotional and social maladjustment. In a study of normal 12-year-old children who differed in their level of personal and social adjustment but not in IQ Kennedy and Kates (1964) found that the poorly adjusted children were inferior on categorization adequacy. Emotional and social maladjustment, whether severe or slight, seems to impair the ability to abstract an appropriate property or properties from the many properties of a target picture that could be used as a basis for grouping.…”

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Conceptual behavior in psychotic and normal adolescents.

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Kates²

1964

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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Categorizing and Conceptualizing Styles in Younger and Older Adults1

Kogan

1973

ETS Research Bulletin Series

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The classification behavior of male and female college students was compared with that of healthy well‐educated older males and females. Object‐sorting and photo‐sorting (male and female faces) procedures were employed. On measures of categorizing style–conceptual differentiation and compartmentalization–older adults were, respectively, lower and higher than college students. On measures of conceptualizing style–categorical‐inferential, analytic‐descriptive, and relational thematic–younger adults exhibited stronger preferences for the first two, older adults for the third. Females manifested higher levels of conceptual differentiation than males on both sorting tasks and lower levels of compartmentalization on object‐sorting. Five content categories for sorting human faces were derived–physical, age, psychological, demographic, and preferential. No systematic age or sex differences for sorting male photos was obtained. For female photos, however, younger adults were more likely to use physical attributes for grouping, males were more likely to group on the basis of age, and females more strongly favored demographically‐based groupings. On the whole, the results failed to confirm other published evidence maintaining that aging is marked by conceptual deficits or a regressed mode of cognitive functioning.

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Conceptual sorting and personality adjustment in children.

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Categorizing and Conceptualizing Styles in Younger and Older Adults

Categorizing and Conceptualizing Styles in Younger and Older Adults

Conceptual behavior in psychotic and normal adolescents.

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