Author evaluates Christopher Jencks's book, Inequality, in which Jencks's concern is almost completely with the efficacy of education as a means of reducing inequality, particularly income inequality, as a characteristic of our society. (Author/RK)

The conclusion from these results is that while prenatal anomalies or an impoverished home environment may retard development, in the majority of cases the environmental conditions fall within the limits of sufficiency that permit the genetic blueprint to determine the course of infant development. (Authors)

Results are discussed in terms of cognitive growth, the psychoanalytic notion of ambivalence, the role of stimulus context in eliciting laughter or fear, and a possible adaptive, stimulus-maintaining function of laughter. (Authors)

Presents a basic examination of non-physical mental acts as educational objectives. (Author)

Describes briefly the basic principles of humanistic psychology in contrast with behaviorism and Fraudianism. Presents some guidelines for science educator's use of humanistic psychology in the classroom. (PS)

Paper offers teachers some strategies and ideas they might use to help students in their valuing process. (Author)

Article describes results of a clinical study of teen-aged boys living in a residential halfway house for socially disturbed youth, prototypes for changing their life styles, and implications for occupational therapists as interventive treatment agents. (Author)

Discusses the tendency to push cognitive learning and mechanical memory training among ever younger age groups and the effect this is likely to have on the development of young children.'' (Author)

Compares the ages at which infants living under different conditions in two orphanges in Athens, Greece achieve levels of object construction and imitation, both verbal and gestural. Home-reared infants of the same age range were also examined using two of the Uzgiris-Hunt Ordinal Scales of Infant Psychological Development. (WY)

Author cites research studies which challenge some of the basic assumptions underlying Head Start programs and outlines the hard choices that must be made. (MB)

Students' preferences changed from applied to theoretical aspects of physics, and from recall of facts to identification of fundamental principles during two years of study of the Physical Science Study Committee in Australian High Schools. (AL)

Study concerned with the mechanisms in terms of which the developmental transformation from one cognitive structure to another occurs. (Author)

An abstract of a study done during doctoral work (Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). (RJ)

The Little Jiffy" consists of principal components analysis and varimax rotation of all components with eigenvalues greater than one. (DG)

A computerized system of determining learning methods individualizes education for students. (Editor)