Based on author's PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles (1967).

Study supported by grant number 00870-05 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Research supported in part by grants 1484-S and 198-T from U.S. Rehabilitation Services Administration.

To investigate the development of children's knowledge of the intension and extension of four natural concepts (cup, scissors, money, and musical instrument), three questions were explored in an experiment involving one-hundred-and-twenty 3-, 5-, and 7-year-old children (40 children for each age group). Extension was measured in a verbal labeling…

An early intervention program for 14 Down's syndrome children (4 to 15 months old) and their parents included individualized guidance for parents in teaching their infant. Home activities centered on tasks to develop attention: cognitive, perceptual, motor, and language skills. Emphasis was placed on a structured teaching approach with…

To investigate task performance and the use of private speech and to examine the effects of a cognitive training approach, 30 learning disabled (LD) and 30 nonLD Ss (7 to 8 years old) were given a 17 piece wooden puzzle rigged so that it could not be completed correctly. Six variables were measured: (1) proportion of private speech that was task…

This correlational study was part of an experimental project study on abused and non-abused children between the ages of two months and six years. Thirty-one children were administered the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) and the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA). To determine the extent of MSCA and BSID relationship,…

In the Soviet theory of cognitive development, originated by Vygotsky and elaborated by Leont'ev, acts occur at three levels of abstraction: activities, actions, and operations. According to this theory, an activity has an associated motive and may function directively as a motive. While many activities are possible, one activity tends to…

The study investigated whether training in object permanence and/or means-end followed by a language training program will result in the learning of more language (as measured by number of words and syntactic complexity) than the language training program alone with 32 profoundly retarded children (3 to 10 years old). Secondary goals included…

The concept of verbal self-regulation, or verbal mediation, originated in behavioristic analyses of thinking, but was later extended to cognitivistic analyses. In both applications, the research that was generated was usually deficient in ecological validity. In addition, in some of the research verbal self-regulation was inferred when an overt…

This issue of "Investigations in Science Education," provides analytical abstracts, prepared by science educators, of research reports in the areas of instruction, Piagetian studies, and teacher education. Each abstract includes bibliographical data, research design and procedure, purpose, research rationale, and an abstractor's analysis…

PROCEDURES TO HELP THE TEACHER OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN RECONSTITUTE THE MODELS OF LEARNERS AND CLASSROOMS TO WHICH SHE IS ACCUSTOMED ARE PRESENTED. THESE PROCEDURES ALSO HELP TO ELIMINATE THE EDUCATIONAL RETARDATION OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN. SEVEN PROCEDURES WERE DISCUSSED--(1) "CONTACT WITH THE CULTURAL MAINSTREAM"--ON THE ASSUMPTION…

A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE CURRENT THINKING IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF READING IS PRESENTED. IT IS CONTENDED THAT READING SPECIALISTS HAVE BORROWED FROM PSYCHOLOGY WITHOUT REGARD FOR A TOTAL THEORY OF READING. DEFINITIONS OF SUCH CONCEPTS AS READING HABITS NEED TO BE MADE EXPLICIT. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT MORE ATTENTION BE DIRECTED TOWARD INTEGRATING…