College today is part of a brave new world, populated by the technologically literate young people of the Net Generation. In this article, the authors offer two vignettes of Net Gen students, taken from their research, to provide portraits of college students' everyday technology use. These vignettes, which report technology practices and beliefs…

In 2000 Census microdata, various outcomes of second-generation immigrants are related to their parents' age at arrival in the United States, and in particular whether that age fell within the "critical period" of language acquisition. We interpret this as an effect of the parents' English-language skills and construct an instrumental variable for…

This report presents a dialectical model of identity development which is based on observations of how the self evolves within the context of feminist/transpersonal therapy. Developmental stages which are identified include fusion (Stage I), differentiation (Stage II), and integration (Stage III) of the Child (asserting) and Parent (nurturing)…

The present study examined the relationship of psychological androgyny with ego development in the context of Loevinger's theory, and with psychosocial crisis resolution from the perspective of Erikson's theory. A sample of 30 male and 30 female adults completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory, the Washington University Sentence Completion Test and the…

To replicate and extend Grey's (1981, 1985) studies involving junior-high school students, "How Is Your Logic?" (a 26-item, Piagetian-based, group-administered written test of cognitive development) was given to 553 subjects, 10 through 48 years of age. Each item of the test measured either a specific concrete operation or a specific…

The authors offer a detailed and systematic critique of Piaget's theory of cognitive development, examining it in relation to other theories of development. Chapter 1 points out some of the problems in building and evaluating scientific theories and considers contrasting approaches to cognitive development (including those which focus on…

Reports a semilongitudinal study which measured the respiratory activity during crying of 10 normal infants aged two days to eight months. (BD/BR)

Discusses stages of preschool children's pattern painting and educational implications. (SB)

Literature on developmental process theory is reviewed and related to development of gifted women. (SBH)

Compared 71 patients diagnosed as within schizophrenia spectrum according to second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II) with 66 patients having similar diagnoses according to the third edition (DSM-III). Results suggest that findings obtained with DSM-II schizophrenics concerning premorbid competence and…

Relates resistance in adolescents to individual developmental issues and social context. Suggests viewing resistance as having a positive and protective function and working with the resistance rather than in opposition to it. A continuum of types of adolescent resistance is proposed with several specific interventional strategies for deactivating…

A psychiatrist outlines a Freudian approach to child sexual development, reviewing the oral, anal, phallic, latency, prepuberty, and early prepuberty stages. (CL)

Reports that adult development literature proposes various, often contradictory suppositions on the nature and process of adult development. Describes a multifaceted approach to the development of adults. Outlines implications for practice in higher education and directions for further research. (CH)

An assessment procedure based on M. Lowenfeld' World Technique was used to study pretend play in 25 mildly retarded children (5-7 years old) and 20 non-handicapped children (4-5 years old). Five descriptive levels suggestive of a progression were found: developmental manupulative nonsymbolic play; symbolic play; play with a scene; play with a…

The study compared longitudinally performance of six Down syndrome and six nonretarded children on Object Permanence and Means-Ends Relations Scales. Results indicated that Down syndrome children progressed from Sensorimotor Stage 5 to Stage 6 at the same rate as nonretarded children, once Down's Ss slower developmental pace was considered.…