Study compared provoked and spontaneous one-to-one correspondence along with two tasks having more preceptual support for correspondence. In opposition to Piaget's predictions, the four levels of correspondence did not differ in difficulty for kindergarteners. (Author/SB)

Four hundred children ages 5, 9, and 12 were given a component selection task with stimuli differing in color and shape. Results indicate a greater tendency for older than younger children to withdraw attention from a normally dominant component when advantageous to adopt another feature as the primary functional cue. (Author/SB)

Pretend play is often undervalued and ignored. This videotape and accompanying booklet highlight how the dramatic scenarios, microworlds, storytelling, and block building of pretend play provide young children the opportunity to develop skills for a lifetime of intellectual, social, emotional, and creative development. The booklet describes the…

A new theory of energy forces developed in the U.S.S.R. seems to substantiate the suggestion that academic learning before a child is maturationally ready will reduce his learning potential. (Author)

Discusses Piaget's theory of child development. (JF)

The effects of modeling and corrective feedback on the conservation of equalities and inequalities were studied. Both training methods were successful in teaching children to conserve. Trained children were also capable of generalizing their learning to new conservation tasks. (CS)

A cognitive interpretation is suggested to account for the inverse relation between availability of social stimuli and their subsequent efficacy in a reinforcing role. In this interpretation, the emphasis is on the interpersonal nature of the interaction between the child and the reinforcing person. (Author)

Results of this study indicated that attitude conditioning increased with age and that the increase appeared to be a function of contingency awareness and perhaps also a function of the older subjects' having greater facility in transferring symbolic meaning. (Author)

Preliminary report of a longitudinal study. (ST)

This is a summary of the Ohio Curriculum Guide for Girls Secondary Physical Education,'' which attempts to develop a conceptual approach to physical education. (JA)

Treats teacher evaluation and education from the standpoint of cognitive competence as opposed to performance criteria alone. (GB)

Support for the operation of internal factors in cognitive development was provided by an obtained increase from first to second posttest scores. Two conservations were considered to be involved--conservation of the whole and of the part. (Author)

Physics concepts, developed in young children, are compared to scientific concepts which have best withstood revolutions" in science. (Author/CP)

Author's attitude toward the adaptation of Sesame Street in foreign countries is that it is worth doing, if done well, but the project should be approached critically and warily. (Author/MB)