This study investigates developmental trends in free recall, with emphasis on rehearsal processes. An overt rehearsal technique was used in which 28 children in grades 3, 6, and 8 were instructed to rehearse out loud while trying to memorize a list of unrelated nouns. Control groups at each age level received standard free recall instructions,…

This book is a guide to understanding the development and needs of the child from 0 to 5. There are three sections: General principles of learning and development; infant development and ways of caring for infants; and the preschool child, which concerns the young child's development and proposes teaching and developmental activities. An appendix…

This document reports a study investigating the effects of father absence on measures of cognitive, social, and motivational development in infancy. The sample included 54 black infants, 27 of whom were classified "father-absent." This classification was based on two indices, (1) a dichotomy of father-absent or father-present based on…

To investigate two measures which have been used to assess children's attention to stimulus dimensions, component selection, and dimension preference, both measures were administered to 38 3 1/2 to 5-year-olds and 20 5- to 6 1/2-year-olds. Seven to ten days after the dimension preference task was given. the component selection measure was…

CCEP's Pupil Role Interview study includes an interview content analysis. This analysis deals with questions involving the way children view their learning environment, the aspects that are most prominent in the child's eye, and the match between the child's real and ideal learning environment. The content analysis revealed that: (1) program…

Issues concerned with the widespread application of psychological theory and research to childhood education are discussed. Educational programs based on behavioral and cognitive psychological theories are compared in terms of the values they communicate to children. The innovative early childhood programs of the 60's which focused on reducing…

The relationship between staff orientations and children's performance levels is examined by comparing correlations obtained on these factors in centralized and decentralized institutions for neglected, dependent, abused, and disturbed children. Comparisons are also made of results obtained on the performance of new admissions, children in care…

Recent research has shown that certain stimuli are better remembered 6 months after initial exposure than after one week. An alternative explanation of these findings was tested. The explanation posited that the younger children "remember" as well at one week as 6 months later, but at the earlier testing many do not realize what aspect…

A five-year study was conducted to evaluate the effects of varying intensities of family life education services on samples of high and low-income families (110 of each) in Montreal. The purpose was to provide these families with similar programs for one year and to study them longitudinally for three years to determine whether the programs…

This study links the Piagetian categories of classification with an analysis of the structure of riddles. Subjects were 623 elementary and junior high school students from small towns in Northwestern Ohio. The children provided experimenters with riddles and each riddle was scrutinized for possible inclusion in the following categories: (1)…

Six- and nine-month-old infants were exposed to contingent or non-contingent perceptual stimulation from a source which was spatially displaced at 60 from the infant's midline. Reliable operant acquisition was observed in the case of the nine-month-old infants, but not in the case of the six-month-old infants whose performance was similar to that…

Evidence regarding children's incidental learning has been derived largely from tasks in which the incidental stimulus features have been independent of the task-relevant information. The present study examined children's incidental learning with compound pictorial stimuli under conditions in which the relevant and incidental features were: (a)…

This experiment, conducted at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel was undertaken to determine if adolescents of impaired cognitive ability caused by social and/or cultural deprivation could be rehabilitated through the use of proper teaching and counseling methods. Counseling for the experimental group of students was done by a social…

This evaluation of cognitive change in Head Start children focused on changes in performance as opposed to changes in competence; specifically, that Binet test performance improves as a function of experience with Binet examiners. The study involved 93 children assigned to four groups who were tested for IQ gains during a 6-week Head Start program…

The objective of the investigation was to develop and test procedures for training children in coordination of projective space. (Projective concepts involve apparent distance, relative position, shape of figures, and other topological factors. A person with a command of projective space sees objects as a coordinated system of figures in space.) A…