Examined mothers (N=56) of children with a variety of developmental delays. Found support group participation and meaning attribution were associated with decreased levels of stress and depression as well as with specific coping strategies. (Author/ABL)

Investigates the development of an understanding of gender labels in toddlers by systematically varying the ages of pictured stimulus children. Results indicate that gender discrimination improved with age, but there was no evidence that the age of the stimulus children had an influence on labeling accuracy. (JS)

Discusses otitis media in Australian Aboriginal children. Topics include effects of conductive hearing loss on Aboriginal children and adults and needs for research and provision of services. (RJC)

Examined the ability of 85 children of 6, 8, and 11 years to reason deductively with content for which practical knowledge is irrelevant. The emergence of a clear developmental pattern showed that children's ability to differentiate responses to logical and illogical syllogisms improves over this age period. (RJC)

Discusses teenage pregnancy, parenthood, and intervention programs in Canada. Focuses on the issues facing young women from severely disorganized backgrounds whose children are at-risk for developmental delay, emotional disturbance, maltreatment, and neglect. (RJC)

Studies social play and social and solitary pretend play in well-acquainted toddlers aged 14-38 months in order to describe a sequence of progressively more complex social pretend play forms. Results indicate that social pretend play forms emerge later than comparable solitary pretend and social play forms. (RJC)

Examines young children's preferences and understanding regarding external and internal causes of behavior. Considers research in four areas: (1) knowledge of psychological states; (2) understanding that psychological states can cause behavior; (3) preference for internal versus external causes; and (4) discounting. (RJC)

Using a stochastic model, shows that Chodorow's theory on the reproduction of mothering does not work. According to Chodorow, daughters become more nurturing than sons because mothers do more nurturing than fathers; this becomes a self-reproducing cycle. However, this theory does not sustain a sex differential in nurturing. Considers strategies…

Studies the earliest childhood memories of 82 deaf and hearing college students. Results indicate no significant difference in the age of the earliest recollections among the students. The average age of the first memory was between 3 and 4 years. (RJC)

Discusses general developmental principles which have emerged from studies in motor development. (RJC)

Investigated effects of age, task difficulty, and parent presence on private speech in 72 children of 2-5 years. The proportion of speech coded as private increased with age. Private speech was positively related to task performance. (RJC)

Three experiments investigated development of mechanisms of selective attention in 60 second graders. Results demonstrated that the ability to process automatically irrelevant stimuli and the habituation mechanisms of attention are observable by grade two, but the inhibitory mechanism was not always evident at this stage. (RJC)

In the Education for Parenting program, K-eight students acquire knowledge through direct monthly observations of one parent and one baby in their classroom. In a loving atmosphere, students apply basic academic skills while observing, predicting outcomes, and pondering the probable effects of the parent's actions on the child's development. (MLH)

Five experiments investigated children's intuitions about genetic transmission of features. Results suggest young children have principled, specifically biological notions of inheritance. (PCB)

Investigated children's reports of experiences of simultaneous different-valence emotions and examined whether such reports included indications of internal conflict or ambivalence. (PCB)