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Cherry, Louise; Lewis, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1976
This study of 12 white, upper-middle-class mothers and their children was conducted to provide information on how verbal aspects of mother-child interaction are differentiated by sex of the child. Results suggest greater verbal quantity and responsivity for mother-female compared with mother-male dyads. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Infants, Language Acquisition, Middle Class Parents

Tversky, Barbara; Teiffer, Evelyn – Developmental Psychology, 1976
A total of 122 kindergartners, third and fifth graders viewed 30 pictures of familiar objects and interested on their free recall of the object names and their recognition of the original pictures. Half received instruction in adult recognition strategies, half in adult recall strategies. (MS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education