A chronological listing (1938-1978) of 78 published works by Professor Edwin Peel of the University of Birmingham, England. (SJL)

The difficulties encountered in attempting to apply Piaget's theory of cognitive development to education reveal ambiguities existing within the theory itself. Research activity by educators and by developmental theoreticians must be integrated in order to achieve either a comprehensive developmental theory or an effective application of it. (CT)

Comprehension of usages of "or" was investigated in children 5 to 6 and 9 to 10 years old, and in college students. All age groups made logical inferences involving "or". All age groups perceived contradictions but disagreed regarding inferences to be drawn from contradictions. Except when set union is indicated, "or"…

The training of intelligence is considered as a component of early interventions. The Home-Oriented Preschool Educational (HOPE) experiment is examined, and a currently in progress long term followup study of it is described. (Author)

A theory of cognitive modifiability deals with the phenomenon of low cognitive performance, explains its etiology, and forms the basis for a remedial intervention--Instrumental Enrichment (IE)--that induces changes of a structural nature in adolescents. (Author)

Twenty activities which develop gifted children's creativity; power of reasoning; and ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate are listed. (DB)

The study examined 30 schizophrenic and 30 nonpsychotic but disturbed children (all residents at a psychiatric center and all between 8 and 17 years old) for cognitive deficits in logical thinking, symbolic imagery, and conservation within the Piagetian theory of cognitive development. (Author/SBH)

Children at three levels of conceptual maturity were presented with six dilemmas in order to test the hypothesis that cognitive development predicts concrete behavioral choices whenever individuals are at least as complex as the moral alternatives confronting them. (Author/DB)

The ability of three- and four-year-old children to reason about the components of event sequences involving simple transformations was tested in two experiments. In Experiment I children saw picture "stories" of the form object, instrument, and transformed object, with one item deleted. In Experiment II only the instrument item was…

Discusses four types of adolescent hypocritical behavior: (1) pretending to be what one is not; (2) pretending not to be what one is; (3) talking negatively about peers in their absence and positively in their presence; (4) behaving and speaking in whatever manners are in one's interests. (Author/DB)

Seven-, ten- and seventeen-year-olds (N=72) in control and experimental conditions were used to test the role of metamemory and metamemory activation in the development of mnemonic performance. Metamemory was found to be a necessary condition for mnemonic performance. Developmental differences were found. (Author/DB)

Reports the results of pilot testing the use of a scale of cognitive clarity for beginning readers based on the writings of John Downing. (AEA)

Ledwidge's recent implication that cognitive behavior modification is "a step in the wrong direction" is examined and evaluated. Misconceptions about the alleged differences between cognitive and behavior therapists are noted, with particular emphasis on metaphysical dualism and dichotomous categorization. (Author/MP)

Provides an alternative conception of postconventional moral development which fits existing data on late adolescent and adult moral judgment better than Kohlberg's higher stage descriptions. Data is from a longitudinal study of 26 undergraduates at Harvard. (Author/SS)