The present investigation, conducted within the framework of equity theory, was designed to determine the principles that preschool children use when they are given the opportunity to distribute rewards. (Authors)

Conclusion drawn is that bilinguals, brought up in a one-person, one-language home environment, reach a stage in semantic development some 2-3 years earlier than their unilingual peers. (Author/CB)

Results indicate that for children in this study's age range orientation is a less salient discriminative cue than either size or color. (Author/MB)

Results clearly demonstrated the existence of perceptual sets in children under 4 years. The interpretation of findings suggests a process whereby the present method was successful in creating the mediating conditions necessary for a perceptual set. (Authors)

It was concluded that drawing rules are essential and that adequate visual analysis is a necessary but not sufficient prerequisite to the production of accurate copies. (Author)

Results showed that instructions significantly increased recognition accuracy. (Author/MB)

Results did not support previous work suggesting large amounts of communication failure in the spontaneous talk of 4-year-old children. (Author)

The theory of social comparison postulates that the tendency to compare one's performance to others' will decrease as a function of the discrepancy between the quality of one's own performance and that of the comparison person. (Author/MB)

Hypothesis was confirmed that more familiar and more ambiguous concepts would be less readily named in their less detailed representations. (Author/MB)

Results indicate that the test-retest stability of the DDST is quite satisfactory for a screening test. (Authors/MB)

Goal of this study was to obtain information pertaining to what is acquired when children gain the ability to reproduce a diagonal pattern. (Authors/CB)

Study tests the hypothesis that younger children's self-reinforcing tendencies would be governed by prior social comparison concerning the relative amounts of rewards each received by himself and a peer, while older children will take into account whether any observed discrepancy in rewards received is merited or arbitrary. (Author/CB)

The present study, based on teachers' ratings of their 4- and 5-year-old students, examined the correspondence between quantity and sophistication of verbal output and the child's production of gross bodily activity and fine manipulative movements. (Authors)

Results of this study suggest that availability of a consistent set of color labels is related more closely to recognition accuracy than is the spontaneous production of labels in a color recognition task. (Authors)