In this study, the relationship between a refined measure of the learning environment of the home and the levels and profiles of a set of mental ability scores of children from five Canadian ethnic groups was examined. Significant group differences persisted in the verbal, number, and reasoning scores. (Author/JMB)

Relates two strategies of compensatory education to the origins of educational deficits. (JM)

Study examined word associations from the perspective of cognitive level and thought processes. (Authors/MB)

Findings suggest that maternal child-rearing practices significantly affect the child's response to a given compensatory preschool program. (Author)

The rate and nature of mother-child interaction - verbal and nonverbal- and its effects are here discussed and recent research is presented and analyzed. (Editor/JB)

Explains a theory of legal socialization derived from cognitive developmental theory, using interview data from a developmental study of U. S. white youths from kindergarten through college. (JM)