Discusses the discrepancy between the conceptualization of reflection-impulsivity and its operationalization. In a study of 100 children, the separate contributions of latency and accuracy were evaluated. Data indicated that accuracy had important personality concomitants; latency was inconsequential. (Author/SDH)

Author talked about what studies of the psychological development of the child suggest about his natural conception of justice. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this article is to outline some of the characteristics of children's notions of physical causality and to relate this to how one might expect the typical five-year-old, eight-year-old, and twelve-year-old to approach a problem in science. (Author)

The purposes of this study were to investigate the concepts of reading of first-grade and third-grade children, to describe the relationship of these concepts to the children's intelligence and reading achievement, and to investigate the differences between the concepts of reading of first and third graders. The subjects for the study were 30…

This article argued that educational research is (a) primarily concerned with operational research, (b) a critical refining and reformulating rather than a discovering activity, and (c) a systematically organized joint philosopher-researcher-practitioner enterprise. (Author/RK)

Discusses the need for increased creativity in counseling. Focuses on various techniques, such as building on present knowledge bases, understanding one's own values, and expanding vistas, to develop creative activity. (EJT)

What nursing really needs is a theoretical framework--but first it needs a conceptual one, descriptive rather than predictive. (BP)

Presents a study which assessed preschool children's understanding of "front,""back," and "side" through a variety of tasks. A developmental sequence is defined. (ED)

Children aged 3, 6, 9 and 12 years were asked to name and sort 25 different drinking vessels. Results showed three stages: (1) they ove rextend the term "cup"; (2) they focus only on certain perceptual properties; (3) they show growing awareness of functional properties and hence the vagueness of the boundary. (Author/RM)