A total of 12 three, four, five, seven, and nine year olds and 12 adult control subjects were asked 20 questions about two exemplars of each of 16 categories of animate beings and inanimate objects. Children's responses indicated that animism is not a pervasive phenomenon and does not appear to be the most primitive mode of conceptualization.…

The review analyzes critically the research and promotional literature on J. Guilford's Structure of Intellect (SOI) model as it relates to cognitive functioning of gifted students and evaluates the implications for programing. It is concluded that the SOI model promises far more than it has delivered and that it neglects developmental…

Functional family therapy model assesses family behavior from perspectives of interactional process and functional payoffs for the individual family members. Illustrates that functional needs change as a result of development, and that by including a family life cycle perspective in the assessment process, clinicians will get a clearer picture of…

Discusses the influence of development on divorce, and presents a diaclectic model of divorce stages. Suggests mediation as an alternative dispute resolution strategy and describes contraindications for both mediation and the adversarial approach. (JAC)

Reviews adult life-cycle research, particularly the stages outlined in Levinson's "Seasons of a Man's Life," as a framework for anticipating transitional life plateaus and identifying obstacles to career development. (SK)

Research on young adult development provides important insights into the issues and tasks that distinguish this stage from other stages of the life span and that have significant implications for continuing education. (JOW)

Describes three unique characteristics of adult thought: (1) an understanding of the relativistic nature of knowledge, (2) an acceptance of contradiction as a part of reality, and (3) an integrative approach to thinking. Analysis of the philosophical foundations of these characteristics is followed by critical examination of current studies of…

Ten delinquent boys in a home operated on a just community philosophy, which stresses moral discussion and participatory democracy in making and enforcing rules and in resolving interpersonal conflict, moved up an average of one-third of a stage in their reasoning on the Kohlberg moral judgment interview. (Author/RM)

Cumulative teaching, in which it is made certain that a child acquires one competency before proceeding to another of the same type, is described in terms of assumptions, main ideas, and its application to phonics, vocabulary, and basic addition for learning disabled students. (CL)

Discrimination analyses indicated that the subtests chosen for hypothesized age-related deficits classified from 77 percent to 89 percent of the cases as compared with the school district's selection. (Author)

Argues that the most widely used accounts of children's artistic development are not only inadequate and incomplete but that they seriously misinform, obscuring more than they reveal about children's drawings. (Author/SJL)

Outlines a life-span model which extends Piaget's theory of cognitive development to adulthood. (SS)

Thirty five-year-olds were given number conservation tasks within their subitising and their counting ranges. For the experimental group, counters were joined by threads. These children's superior performance suggests that, when such one-to-one correspondence is a salient clue, young children can effectively apply the principle of invariance.…

Examines the relationship between class inclusion and age and indicates that class inclusion frequently appears to develop at a much later age than is suggested in Piaget's writings. (Author/MP)

Examined the nature of possession and ownership in a developmental and cross-cultural context. Of particular importance to all ages and cultural groups were the two dimensions of effectance and control of possessions and positive affect for possessions. (Author)