Since season of birth is a factor in school performance, this research is based on the performance of children whose date of birth is held constant. (MB)

Implications of the findings for the programming of institutions for the retarded are discussed. (Authors)

The present study investigated some properties of the environment that control an infant's response to his mother's departure and, in particular, the readiness with which he follows her. (Authors)

Data were discussed in terms of an outline of an empirically based theory of transfer. (Authors)

Relevance of cognitive and developmental variables to observational learning and imitation is also discussed. (Authors/MB)

Research was designed to determine whether developmental differences in sensitivity to more peripherally presented material could be found under conditions in which overt eye movements during the presentation of task material were not possible. (Author)

Boys IQ was positively correlated with paternal nurturance, and negatively correlated with paternal restrictiveness. (Author)

Examines the nature of the "sense of fate control" findings of the Coleman Report, and argues that these findings are irrelevant to the debate over community control. (DM)

The purpose of this study was to compare the perceptions of teacher competence within and among three groups of educators as measured by the interview scales of the Instrument for the Observation of Teaching Activities (IOTA). (Auhor)

It was tentatively concluded that identification may contribute to the recognition that moral principles and not external sanctions form the basis of right and wrong, but not to the application of these principles to one's own behavior in the absence of authority. (Author)

When high anxious mothers administered tasks to their children, they facilitated the task performance of their daughters but were strongly detrimental to that of their sons. Low anxious mothers chose more difficult tasks for sons than for daughters, and they facilitated the task performance of sons more than that of daughters. (Authors/RY)