Undergraduates discussed a moral issue with a confederate who had the same opinion (no controversy) or opposite opinion (controversy) within either a cooperative or a competitive context. Subjects in the controversy conditions indicated more conceptual conflict, engaged in more information seeking, and were more accurate in taking the cognitive…

Longitudinal data on six eye-hand coordination tasks for 25 children aged five and one-half through eight and one-half years were factor analyzed in terms of functional and structural cognitive orientation. (Author)

The article describes programs for the hearing impaired, visually impaired, mentally retarded, behavior disordered, orthopedically handicapped, speech handicapped, and learning disabled in which the arts have been used to enhance cognitive growth. (SBH)

Investigates the effects of high school chemistry experiences on the use of Piaget's operative structures. Reports that students who took chemistry scored higher than those who did not on a test of Piaget's operative comprehension. (GA)

Offers a set of principles that should govern the composition of secondary school social studies curriculum as related to the developing and changing forms of cognition in secondary students. Discusses the "romantic" and "philosophic" stages of the secondary student's development and outlines curriculum implications for each stage. (KC)

Evaluates college students' understanding of chemistry as operationally defined by Bloom. The Test of Higher Cognitive Learning in Chemistry was administered to 488 students upon completion of a one-semester course in general chemistry. Significant differences were found among student mean scores at various cognitive levels. (HM)

Examples are given illustrating a facet of early learning involving insights into abstract thinking. Several learning theories examined fail to account for this phenomenon. (MP)

Investigated was whether reading achievement could be increased by exposure to logical and perceptual tasks as found in science process activities. (MP)

The literature on adolescent cognitive development and issues related to the prevention of teenage pregnancy are briefly discussed. The author outlines relevant questions which should be understood by professionals working in sex education and human services programs, and presents implications for research. (GDC)

Parents of 24 developmentally delayed infants provided their children with sequential experiences intended to foster the development of the object construct. (Author/SBH)

A review of the research indicating that bilingual children enjoy a definite advantage in the domain of cognitive flexibility. Further, there is no basis for the belief that becoming bilingual or bicultural necessarily means a loss of identity. Application of the studies to ethnolinguistic minority groups is discussed. (AMH)

This article discusses children's phonological limitations, including perceptual difficulties and productive difficulties. (NCR)

Presents an analysis of Pascual-Leone's quantitative model for the measurement of the cognitive capacity of children. Presents an experiment in which 8-year-old children are asked to reproduce single actions and combinations of actions modeled by an experimenter. (BD)

Reports a study involving 35 learning-disabled boys attending full-time remedial schools and 35 matched normal achievers to investigate whether learning-disabled children differ from normal achievers in terms of logical thought and whether they exhibit decalages in their acquisition of Piagetian concepts. (BD/BR)

Early acquisition of right and left as absolute concepts does not seem to be related to early mastery of right and left as relative concepts among the Hausa. (Author)