The central purposes of this study were to discover whether musically unsophisticated seventh grade pupils could be taught to keep track of the unfolding forms of unfamiliar minuets and movements in sonata-allegro form, and the extent to which successful tracking is related to the observation of briefer musical elements. (Author)

This article describes some of the progress of a research program stressing the need for the development of reinforcement principles in education, the need for behavior analysis, and the need for wider utilization of learning principles. (Author/RK)

Results indicated that Piagetian developmental level significantly predicted problem-solving performance, whereas level of field independence did not appear to clarify individual differences in a meaningful way. (Author)

There is little definitive research to support coeducational grouping as the optimal grouping pattern for first grade boys and girls. (Authors)

A theoretical framework stemming from the evolutionary psychology of Herbert Spencer, along with two experiments with young children as subjects, are presented. (Authors)

Authors interpret the evidence from the three experiments to mean that highly cognitively structured small-group activities have positive effects upon cognitive development, at least for a relatively short period of time. (Authors)

Subjects were Zambian elementary school children, ages 7-17, providing evidence of weight conservation behavior and those who did not; principal dependent variable was performance on locally-developed psychometric measures of reasoning ability. Very little connection was found between the conservation-status of the subjects and their performance…

Presented are: the specific causal relationships between skills assessed on the various subscales of the tests employed; the value of the cross-lagged panel correlation technique in causal analysis; and, an extensive methodological examination and qualification of this analytic model. (Authors/MB)

In a Parent Child Center, disadvantaged mothers learn to stimulate cognitive growth in their children and, through other activities, gain in self-esteem. (DM)

An investigation of the relationship between mental health and work training in specific growth dimensions. Based on the March, 1965, national population survey and presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (New York, New York, 1969). (JM)