The present findings suggest that never" as a response and very often" as a response are mediated by different underlying processes, at least between the ages of 8 and 17. (Author/WY)

To explore possible age differences, the first experiment assessed speed and maintenance of alertness in 5-year-olds, 8-year-olds, and adults. The second study tested the hypothesis that developmental variation in processing speed observed in some studies was attributable in part to age differences in alerting processes. (MP)

Demonstrated that six-year-olds performed as well as 17-year-olds in discriminating self-generated memories from memories that were the result of external presentation. However, six-year-olds were not as adept as nine-year-olds in discriminating what they had said earlier from what they had only thought. (Author/MP)

Finds that the usual adult superiority in speed of processing could be markedly reduced if children were given equivalent amounts of domain knowledge. The effect was domain specific; differences in knowledge affected processing rates in both knowledgeable adults and children to about the same extent. (Auther/RH)

Forty trained and untrained five- and eight-year-olds were given Marmor's Mental Rotation Task (MRT) to assess their use of kinetic imagery. (CM)

Two experiments examined semantic elaboration and interpretation in recognition memory of 4-year-olds and college students. Subjects were presented pictures of color-specific and non-color-specific items, and then tested for their recognition of the chroma of the items. (Author/MP)

Two experiments were conducted to test the possibility that children are slower than adults because they are less able than adults to process the information available about subsequent events in parallel with an ongoing response. Subjects were second, third, and sixth graders and college students. (MP)

Third- and fifth-grade children and adults were presented with eight-item letter sequences of varied approximation to English in a tachistoscopic single report, cue delay task. (RH)

A Piagetian task of spatial functioning and a modified classification problem (simple intersection) were administered to children to test the degree of relationship between logical and sublogical operations by defining their common cognitive components. (Author/DB)

Attractive stimuli and fantasy instructions were used in an attempt to manipulate children's involvement in the outcomes of their number and liquid conservation judgments. (Author/DB)

Thirty four- and five-year-old children were tested in a spatial perspective task employing a production format. It was found that the subjects' performance was affected by the position of the observer relative to the subject, as well as by the type of view the subject was required to generate. (MP)

Information integration in judgments of deservingness and fair shares was studied in three experiments with 76 children from four to eight years of age. Even the youngest children had a well-developed sense of equity, and no age trends were found in this respect. (Author/MP)

Younger (N=31) and older (N=21) men participated in a bogus convergent-thinking task in which they rated their effort expenditure after experiencing varying degrees of success. As predicted, results indicated younger, but not older men perceived they tried harder when they succeeded relative to when they failed. (Author)