Points out that an aspect of Piaget's theory, the concept of stage, is being misrepresented through vague and incorrect use of the idea. (Author/GA)

The technology of behaviorism and the social consciousness of normalization have produced monumental changes for developmentally handicapped children but lack an intrinsic developmental perspective. Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory is proposed as a framework to provide content, direction and structure for educational and habilitative…

The proportion of children in a representative sample of 1200 15- to 16- year-olds showing different Piagetian levels of thinking was measured. No increase in the proportion showing formal operational thinking was found beyond the age of 15. Investigated whether boys develop at the same rate as girls. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to compare the characteristics of the ego development continuum as revealed by incomplete sentences and self-report scales and also to ascertain how well the structured personality inventory can estimate the ego development stages as assessed by the Sentence Completion Test (SCT).

Examined the development of stable concepts of "boy" and "girl" in kindergarteners and first and second graders. Gender constance was explored in relation to: performance on conservation tasks; application of gender label to self or other; application of gender label to live person or pictorial representations; and sex role…

Considers adult educational needs according to the idea of developmental tasks along with changes in adult life cycles and calls for changes in adult education and legislation. (MF)

The areas of attachment, dependence, conscience, aggressiveness and sex-role identity are examined in relation to developmental problems and educational implications. (BP)

Perspective ability is the ability to represent how objects look relative to each other from another person's viewpoint. This ability involves two different but interrelated skills: multiple classification and perspective-taking. The intent here was to devise a training program designed to study the causes of transition from one stage of…

In response to the previous article, Whitehurst defends his article on imitation; it is different from Beilin's structural terms, and significant because much is known about imitation. Zimmerman challenges Beilin's interpretation of Piaget's structural assumptions. Brody maintains that children's qualitative changes in moral reasoning are best…

Refocusing indicates a more accurate view of a developmental-emergent process. The preretirement age is a new era in which couples as individuals can begin to experiment with different rhythms and patterns of life. (Author)

Major effects of divorce identified are age and sex of the child, relative willingness and ability of parents to care for the child, and nature of the parent-child relationships. There is little support for assumptions that divorce is necessarily harmful and custody should always be awarded to mothers. (Author)

Presents a developmental study of changes in infant attachment behaviors. Five groups of female infants, 8, 11, 14, 19, and 24 months of age, were observed during varying types of separation experiences. Changes in proximity behaviors and contact behaviors were analyzed. (BD)

Describes Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development as a liberal ideology. Critiques Kohlberg's theory and liberal social science ideologies in general. (BD)

The Sex Stereotype Measure II (SSMII) was developed to assess children's knowledge of conventional, sex-trait stereotypes defined by American university students. The SSMII was administered individually to 5- and 8-year-old children in the United States, England, and Ireland and group administered to 11-year-olds in the United States. (Author/JMB)