Analyzes an intimate journal, Florida Scott-Maxwell's "The Measure of My Days". Scott-Maxwell's journal contains suggestive ideas about the experience of aging among the old-old, about the theoretical issue of late life individuation, and about successful aging. (Author/ABB)

Examines the major findings in the history of the family, with special attention to their relations to childhood and child development. The focus is on the family and household structure and the wider kin group, the life course and the relations between the family and social change. (BB)

From a developmental-structuralist perspective, describes stages of child development; presents operational criteria to help the clinician categorize infants and young children whose behavioral and emotional patterns may fall outside the expectable, normal range; and illustrates the diagnostic approach with five case studies. (RH)

Studies 40 children ages 1 to 3 with respect to stage 6 object permanence, representational language, and symbolic play. Examines methodological problems in investigations of Piaget's model of cognitive-linguistic relationships related to the definition of these variables and associated with the use of correlations for data analysis. (Author/CB)

Reviews research studies aimed at informing children about illness and hospitalization, points out methodological problems in such studies, and describes work based on the normal child's ideas of health and illness. (Author/RH)

Asks adults and 6-, 9- and, 13 year olds' questions about tape-recorded stories in order to investigate their ability to recognize sincere, deceptive, and sarcastic remarks. Results indicate that the youngest children interpret all remarks as sincere; 9 and 13 year olds can appreciate deliberate falsehood, but only adults identify sarcasm.…

The purpose of this paper is to familiarize readers with Vygotsky's theory on verbal regulation of thinking skills, to describe related research and applications of the theory, and to explore its relevance for researchers, parents, and educators. (MT)

Argues that James Moffett's influential model of a young writer's development is flawed, because it depicts beginning writers as being far more limited than they are. (HTH)

Inhelder and Piaget found that somewhere between 12 and 15 years of age, children's thinking shifted from concrete to formal operations. To determine if this shift occurs at approximately the same age for learning disabled children (N=27) compared to normal learning children (N=27) was the task of the study reported. (JN)

Evaluated developmental trends in social perception by examining accuracy and consistency using a novel nonverbal trait-inference task at four age levels (5-6, 7-8, 9-11, and 19-22 years) in male subjects. This general paradigm may prove useful in future investigations of social perceptual development, particularly when consistency as well as…

Examined influence of nondiscrepance and discrepance between situational and expressive cues on children's emotion recognition. Videotaped episodes in which actors portrayed emotions were presented to four- to eight-year-old girls. Girls' responses to questions regarding the perceived cues reflected a developmental trend from centration to…

Partially replicates Elkind and Bowen's (1979) investigation of adolescent egocentrism. Studies the relations between imaginary audience and operational thought by testing children and adolescents on a Piagetian-based written test of operational thought and the Imaginary Audience Scale. (Author/AS)

Approximately 524 children, grades K-5, were asked to draw a plain or designed cube. At all grade levels, the plain cube was represented as a square with far greater frequency than was the designed cube. Perspective drawings, attempted and achieved, were more frequent for the plain cube. (Author/RM)

Piaget's investigations of children's conceptions of time included a conclusion that young children (ages 4-8) equate greater velocity with longer duration. This study showed that older children (ages 10-12) do not equate faster velocity with longer duration when musical examples are used. (Author/RM)

Drug use was investigated in a follow-up cohort of former adolescents representative of high school students in New York State who were interviewed nine years later at ages 24-25. A typical progression from one type of drug to another was established, but this does not necessarily imply causal relationships between different drugs. (KH)