Gifted adolescents who attended a one-month intensive summer institute were administered the Defining Issues Test, which measures levels of moral development. Results indicated that the students (n=167) received scores above the norm for their age range. (Author/JDD)

Examined infants' ability to locate an invisible target after instrumental and association training. After instrumental training, localization was dependent on visual cues, whereas after association training, it occurred with or without visual cues. Concluded that an updating strategy based on proprioceptive information is operative from the…

Infants averaging 5 weeks and 12 weeks of age were presented with object models and a live model to determine whether infants reliably responded to the models with movement-matching facial gestures. Object models produced no reliable elicitation of gestures, but the live model increased the incidence of gestures among infants of five weeks. (SH)

Contains a theoretical discussion and an empirical test of Stinchcombe's "liability of newness" hypothesis, which assumes higher failure risks for young organizations than for older ones. This hypothesis does not adequately represent mortality hazards of German business organizations. A "liability of adolescence" concept…

Psychology has traditionally ignored adolescent girls, despite the fact that they have important developmental needs. The challenge to recreation providers is to determine what they can do about detrimental changes that may occur in adolescent girls. The paper examines issues specific to adolescent girls' development, high-risk behavior, primary…

Explores the impact of gender and developmental level on coping-skills acquisition in adolescence. Suggestions for helping youth to develop effective coping strategies are provided from both a prevention and an intervention perspective. (Author/MKA)

Examines the stage-like nature of children's spelling development. Finds little evidence for either predicted qualitative differences in stage classification of errors or in stage consistency across grades. Discusses implications for theories of spelling development and instructional practices. (NH)

Advises parents to relax and learn to recognize the signs that a child is physically and emotionally ready for the next developmental step. Developmental milestones discussed include riding in a backpack, moving to a forward-facing car seat, using eating utensils, taking time-out, and moving from crib to a bed. (HTH)

Compares spelling errors of 195 child and 124 adult literacy learners. Finds a similar developmental pattern occurring in both child and adult spellers especially at the early spelling levels; and that adults were better at identifying visual patterns and understanding some word concepts. Lends support to the theory that adult spelling…

Investigated how different contexts for learning affect the development of memory-enhancing strategies in children. Subjects were children four to seven years old. Results indicated that the number of items recalled in the lesson condition was significantly greater than in the game condition, and the grade effect was also significant. (MOK)

Reviews book that explores the links of adolescence to its immediate past and that suggests adolescence is surprisingly conservative in its effect on the life course. Concludes that the book is timely in its exploration of social processes from the 1980s that put many adolescents at risk for negative outcomes. (HTH)

Investigates how the noun and verb classes develop in the free speech of a French child between the ages of 1 year, 2 months to 2 years and 6 months from the perspective of semantic and grammatical development. Analyses indicate that in French acquisition, nouns clearly predominate over verbs until 20 months of age at least, but that verbs are…

Explored the contexts in which preschool children use private speech or self-talk in the naturalistic setting of the preschool classroom, and age-related changes in the contexts in which preschoolers talk to themselves. (Author/VWL)

Notes the variability in child speech and language development. Explores the debate over whether and when to intervene with children whose speech is developing later than the norm. (HTH)

A survey of work-related opinions of 479 Australian police officers showed a significant correlation between tenure and organizational commitment. Cross-sectional analysis was inconclusive regarding a developmental trend in affective organizational commitment. (SK)