The article focuses on research on improving creativity, including early efforts to enhance, operationalize, and define creativity. Studies dealing with behavioral management of creativity are discussed, as are those concerning the effects of self-statements and cognition. (CL)

A case for theoretical development of advance organizers that aid in the learning and transmission of knowledge is presented. (MP)

Manifestations of egocentrism in preschool children's language, play, and ethical judgement are discussed in relation to Piagetian theory. The importance of cognitive development grounded in Piagetian principles is elaborated. (SK)

Results showed that under research conditions, gifted students in the experimental population did significantly better than average students in the experimental and control groups. (Author/SBH)

Reports a research study assessing the relationship between the interpersonal classification and racial classification abilities of 80 Black elementary school children. (EF)

Results of this study show that after several free recall trials young children (about age 6) did not discriminate very accurately between recalled and nonrecalled items and that they were much less accurate than older children (8 years or above). These findings suggest marked developmental changes. (Author/SJL)

Discusses use of kitchen utensils as resource materials suited for furthering cognitive development in preschool children. (Author/DB)

A Piagetian task of spatial functioning and a modified classification problem (simple intersection) were administered to children to test the degree of relationship between logical and sublogical operations by defining their common cognitive components. (Author/DB)

Describes a model reading program for the elderly. The program encourages the aged to revive dormant interests and explore new vistas as major prerequisites to personal fulfillment. The goal was to identify an instructional plan that motivates the elderly to seek intellectual, physical, or spiritual renewal through reading-related exercises.…

Explored the relationships between the cognitive developmental level of preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational children (N=10) and their success in interpreting and explaining each of eight commonly described mechanisms of psychological defense. (JMB)

Discusses problems involved in testing Piaget's hypothesis of topological primacy in representational space by copying geometric figures. (Author/SS)

The adaptation of Guilford's Structure of Intellect (SOI) model by M. Meeker to a kindergarten through twelfth-grade gifted curriculum is discussed. The key to the SOI model curriculum is diagnosis and prescription. The theory that 120 various cognitive skills can be differentiated and remediated underlies the curriculum. There are five workbooks…

The effectiveness of color cuing strategies is analyzed in terms of learner aptitudes, the type of learning required, the category of color cuing employed, and the relationship between color cues and other feature cues. (Author/JEG)

Used a pretest/post-test control group design involving 44 female adolescent subjects to determine whether Moral Stage 3 subjects who have attained early basic formal operations are more susceptible to attempts to stimulate moral development than Stage 3 subjects who have attained only beginning formal operations and lack the cognitive…

Discusses harmful myths or stereotypes that adults have about adolescents and proposes a realistic appraisal of adolescents' needs based on their developmental tasks. (SS)