This study used a rating scale, a betting game, and a feedback phase to examine the certainty with which 60 second graders and 36 fifth graders made judgments on tasks involving various forms of conservation and transitivity. (Author/JMB)

The effects of delay of information feedback interval (0 or 7 seconds), postinformation feedback interval (1, 8, or 15 seconds), difficulty (one or three variable irrelevant dimensions), and presence or absence of a tractor in the postinformation feedback interval were investigated with 240 junior high school children in a modified…

A psi-watcher's survey of current mind and consciousness research - from karate and kung fu to the kundalini hypothesis. (Editor)

The effects of modeling and corrective feedback on the conservation of equalities and inequalities were studied. Both training methods were successful in teaching children to conserve. Trained children were also capable of generalizing their learning to new conservation tasks. (CS)

By controlling heartbeat and other body functions at will, patients are curing a variety of illnesses. (Editor)

The Piagetian concept of horizontality was studied in 195 fifth graders to determine the relationship between this concept and memory. (ST)

This study examined the effects of judgment-contingent feedback and prior knowledge of 3 rules on the conservation learning of 188 kindergarten children. (Author/JMB)

This study is based on an earlier investigation by Brant and Trabasso, in which it was demonstrated that 4-year-old children could perform transitive inferences when training forced information encoding by involving questions about two comparative dimensions of an object (long and short). The present study was designed to examine the sources of…

Study of children's retention of training in class inclusion reasoning skills. Sixty-four kindergarten-age children who showed no evidence of class inclusion skills were assigned to one of three groups: training, training with corrective feedback, and control. Posttests were administered immediately after training and 3 months later. (Author/BN)

Two experiments were conducted to explore the feasibility of training 42 and 72 mildly retarded adolescents to solve class-inclusion problems. (Author)

Author stresses the great need for each teacher to use all of the available resources along with his own fresh look at the child in his situation in order to discover the meaning of the child's behavior from the child's own point of view. (Author/RK)

This study used delayed nonmatching to sample (DNMS) to test the recognition memory function dependent on the medial temporal lobe. Results from three conditions of DNMS tests with 9- and 12-month-olds suggest that the critical late-maturing competence accounting for DNMS success is the ability to understand that the stimulus is a symbol or marker…

Elderly men (N=18) and elderly women (N=18) were assigned to three treatment conditions: feedback, practice, or control. Subjects were post-tested on measures of spatial egocentrism, fluid intelligence, perceptual speed, and volume conservation. The effect of feedback was to improve scores on spatial egocentrism, but this influence did not…

Discusses the respective roles of rate of learning and level of cognitive development in determining intellectual performance in 156 normal and retarded children matched for mental age. (Author/LLK)