Before adults can recognize and value diversity in children they must perceive the strengths and weaknesses of their own personalities and the "childness" within themselves. Presents an outline for an annual mental health exam. (ST)

Reflective and impulsive children were instructed to hasten or delay their responses on a test of hypothesis-seeking and constraint seeking conceptual strategies. Latency of response data on pretesting, training, and immediate posttests showed that the attempts to hasten or delay responses were successful in changing response latencies. (ST)

According to this study, college freshmen as compared with college sophomores tend to have higher dominance and endurance needs, though their consistency scores were somewhat lower. Freshmen seem to have a greater need to influence and control the behavior of others and a greater need for hard work. Results of this study suggest that further…

It was concluded that in grade school children the tendency to be reflective in problem solving also entails a disposition to take longer in making decisions. (Author)

Significant differences in this study were found an the Deference and Affiliation scales of the EPPS. Similarities were not accounted for by sex or socioeconomic variables. (BY)

In this study, the relevance of striving situations to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation was manipulated by varying the degree of involvement in the child's performance displayed by the experimenter. (Authors)

Data provide evidence for the situational invariance of individual differences, and for the greater importance of capacity than of motivational variables in accounting for such differences. (Authors)

Purpose of this study was to test the adequacy of the serial habituation hypothesis as an account of the infant's perceptual commerce with visual stimuli. (Author)

Results indicate that the auditory stimulation in no way affected task performance. Author argues that great amounts of money should not be spent by either schools or parents in order to eliminate moderate amounts of noise from a child's academic environment. (Author/CB)

Contains citations of numerous references for curriculum guide writers. (RD)

Although no one supervisor can be all things to all the people he serves, his role could well be that of a catalyst who can support the teacher in his professional development. (Author)