Results revealed that (1) relevant verbal experience facilitated learning only for preschoolers, (2) irrelevant verbal experience did not interfere with learning, and (3) visual highlighting exerted no significant effects. (Author/MB)

Findings support the hypothesis that lateral preference, per se, has little effect on information-processing behaviors. (Authors)

White male adults were more negative with black children than with white children whereas there was a nonsignificant difference between the 2 races for white female adults. On trait ratings of the children following the training session, both males and females rated black children more negatively than white children. (Author/MB)

Distinction is made between self (self as a subject) and self-concept. (MB)

The present study explores the specific environmental influences in the intellectual development of 24 adoptive infants living in middle class families. (Author)

Implications are that increasing a child's ability to think in terms of alternative solutions to real-life problems could supplement a primary preventive mental health program. (Authors)

A total of 193 basically healthy working-class and middle-class mothers and their infants participated in a four-year longitudinal study. The study focused on the relative potency of several clusters of variables for predicting intellectual and language outcomes during the preschool years. (Author/RH)

Provides background information and a practical guide for including demographic information in developmental research. Describes historic demographic trends reflecting ways family and economic environments have been and continue to be transformed; presents demographic statistics to provide basis for comparison of research populations; and offers…

Reviews current large-scale, longitudinal studies focusing on children. Describes the data collected, including child outcomes, process-oriented information on child-parent interactions, child care quality, parental mental health, family violence, fathering, employment patterns, and community characteristics. Notes that several studies incorporate…