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Rigidity; a flexible concept.
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This article is published in Psychological Bulletin.The article was published on 1959-05-01. It has received 67 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rigidity (psychology).read more
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The encyclopedia of aging
Abstract: THINKING Young children understand the relation between objects and events in a functional manner, such that the first object is seen to go with or to operate on the second object. Complementarity criteria are an integral component of their thinking. Older children and young adults, by contrast, tend to use similarity criteria. In old age, however, the use of complementarity criteria has been found to increase once again (Reese & Rodeheaver, 1985). The reversal to complementarity in old age is thought to be caused by environmental factors rather than being attributable to changes in competence. Young children as well as the elderly are rarely required to state their thoughts in a specifically prescribed way, and complementary categorization therefore seems more natural, since such categorization groups occur naturally in time and space. Older adults do not neces-
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The person-situation debate in historical and current perspective.
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Rigidity in Parent-Child Interactions and the Development of Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior in Early Childhood
TL;DR: State space grid analysis of the observational data revealed an association between rigidity in Parent—Child interactions and child externalizing behavior problems in the fall and spring of kindergarten and 1st grade, and with growth in those problems over time.
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Cognitive functioning is susceptible to the level of blood glucose.
Rachael T. Donohoe,David Benton +1 more
TL;DR: This study investigated whether the performance of non-memory tasks was susceptible to the level of blood glucose, and suggested two physiological mechanisms, firstly, that an equilibrium develops between plasma and brain glucose, such that those with higher levels ofBlood glucose could be expected to haveHigher levels of brain glucose and whether there are individual differences in the efficiency with which glucose is taken from the blood.
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The Authoritarian Personality
TL;DR: The Authoritarian Personality "invented a set of criteria by which to define personality traits, ranked these traits and their intensity in any given person on what it called the 'F scale' (F for fascist)".
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The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis
TL;DR: The psychoanalytic theory of neurosis, Fenichel's classic text, summarized the first half century of psychoanalistic investigation into psychopathology and presented a general psychoanallytic theory for neurosis as mentioned in this paper.