This study investigated children's conceptions of death from a developmental perspective. Subjects were 170 children from grades K-4. Children were tested for conservation and interviewed, following story presentations about an elderly woman's death, to assess their understanding of three concepts concerning death: irrevocability, cessation of…

The task of this chapter is to explore the relationship that exists between individuals and society in the American culture. A special emphasis is placed on the experience of growing up in America and attention is given to those portions of everyday life that create the varying images of self and humankind that young people accept as real.…

The article describes research which attempted to discover whether emotionally disturbed children functioned at Piagetian levels of abstract thought similar to normal children. (CD)

The author questions whether social studies curriculum developers take into account the students' level of cognitive development in structuring courses for grades seven through ten. He also analyzes the consequences of this in terms of student attainment. (Author/RM)

The present study investigated the relationship between spatial placement of human figure drawings and measures of test anxiety, time estimation, and conceptual maturity. Results are discussed. (Author)

Twenty first-graders observed an adult model perform a quantity conservation task. The children were then tested on a series of generalization tasks immediately, after one week, and after three months. The results suggested that the social experience of observation appeared to activate a cognitive restructuring of the children's mental operations.…

A total of 174 first, second, and third graders were tested to examine the relation between perceptual salience and cognitive style. The results indicated that implusives made more errors than reflectives only on trials requiring the use of the least salient dimension and that these performance differences decreased with age. (JMB)

The performance of elementary school children on tasks requiring right and left hemisphere function was investigated and asymmetries in hemisphere function were discovered. (MP)

Different types of understandings are presented as different facets of the development of the mental processes. (MP)

Twenty-two mothers whose physiologic responses to infant signals had been recorded at an earlier date were videotaped with their infants during a feeding session when the infant was 9 months of age. Infants' development of the object concept was assessed at 15 months. (JMB)

Data analysis revealed that a post-organizer had a significant facilitating effect on immediate free-recall in a controlled lecture in college statistics, but no effect on immediate content recognition or delayed free-recall. (MP)

The relationship between performance on a Piaget-based infant scale and adaptive behavior was assessed for 25 developmentally disabled infants and preschool children. (Author)

Two experiments were conducted to explore the feasibility of training 42 and 72 mildly retarded adolescents to solve class-inclusion problems. (Author)

Intelligence levels of a sample of 180 Down's syndrome children were reported, and the results indicated that their abilities are not as limited as previously thought. (Author)