Discusses four general principles that help explain young children's preoperational thinking. Children tend to focus on one thing at a time; what they can see or experience; their own connections or explanations; and their own interpretations and representations. Suggests that teachers need to be good listeners and watch for clues to children's…

The Children's Attitudes Toward the Elderly (CATE) is designed to assess the attitudes of children, ages 3 to 11, towards the elderly through analysis of the affective, behavioral, and knowledge components of attitudes. To achieve a balanced sample of test items for each domain, four measurement techniques are used: open-ended questions; semantic…