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)

The performance of the older subjects (10 years and up) was facilitated by the organizational cues, whereas that of younger subjects was not. (Author)

Results of the present study confirm the importance of the contingency variable in experiments dealing with the effect of supportive comment upon children's performance. (Author)

An analysis of the type and frequency of the different persuasive appeals indicated the major differences were due to the age of the target and not the birth order of the subject. (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)

With no expectancy to perform, vicarious reward had no effect on spontaneous imitation. (Authors)

Results were interpreted in terms of current conceptions of age differences in information-processing speed. (Author)

It was concluded that while retinoblastoma per se is not associated with intellectual superiority or inferiority, retinoblastoma associated with blindness may result in selective cognitive superiority. (Authors)

Although Ss underestimated the size of the illusion in the predicted direction, no significant correlations between size of illusion and either age or IQ were found. (Authors)

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

Subjects between 8 and 20 years of age were tested for competence on an exception to a grammatical rule, the minimal distance rule. (Authors)

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)

Results supported the expectations regarding field dependence-independence but failed to support those regarding sex differences. (Authors)

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