Three formal operations tasks were presented to children of ages 10, 13, and 17. None of the youngest subjects and only half of the older subjects solved the first task without prompts. A few of the younger subjects and nearly all of the adolescents, however, solved the third task without prompts. (Author/JMB)

Reviews the literature concerning the importance of a child's oral language in learning to read. (JM)

This study examined the differential effects on a learning task of two different types of comprehension measures. (SB)

Explores the hypothesis that there is a decline in operational thought ability in the elderly. Two samples of elderly males, with mean ages of 71.80 and 74.29 years respectively, were tested for their ability to conserve mass, surface areas and volume. (BD)

Discusses the theories of Piaget, Bruner, Lifschitz and Langford, Vygotsky and others. (SB)

Discusses the use and stimulation of lateral, or divergent, thinking to promote creativity. (SL)

Testing of a group of kindergarten children generally supported the hypotheses that (1) children from schools in higher socioeconomic areas would have significantly more advanced concepts of language than children in lower socioeconomic areas and (2) that this conceptual development would be correlated with more conventional measures of reading…

The author examines the relationships existing between movement and cognition in child development. (MJB)

The relationship between children's perceptual, cognitive, and affective perspective-taking scores and their cognitive perspective-taking scores gathered one year later was assessed. Subjects were 56 kindergarten through third-grade children. (Author/JMB)

An alternating sort-recall procedure was used in three experiments to train third-, fifth-, and seventh-grade students in the use of organizational techniques as memory aids. (Author/JMB)

Proposes that phonological development involves the three fundamental processes of perception, organization and production. Acquisition proceeds by the suppression of natural phonological processes in a systematic fashion. Processes slide through a child's system, appearing first as constraints on perception, and later on organization and…

Groups of 7 1/2-month-old infants heard 1 of 8 episodes consisting of no, slight, moderate, or large discrepancy between a habituated standard and a transformed auditory stimulus. Patterns of cardiac deceleration supported the hypothesis that attentiveness is an inverted-U function of the degree of discrepancy between stimulus event and schema.…

A sample of 144 children from nursery school, first, and third grades were given a series of problems in which they were required to judge which of 2 synchronous events was longer in duration and to rationalize their judgments. (Author/JMB)

This study examined developmental changes in skill and speed of detection of variation in matrix patterns for 93 kindergartners, 30 fifth-grade students, 30 high school sophomores, 32 nonartists and 30 professional artists. (Author/JMB)

To improve memory in children in early grades or in children at all ages with cognitive problems, it is suggested that the teacher provide verbal interpretations of pictorial information, encourage children to verbalize the pictured material for themselves, and encourage children to create their own mental pictures. (SBH)