Uses a study of children's understanding of relational terms in conservation tasks to illustrate negligent or inaccurate reading of research reports. (ST)

Reports two experiments to assess the usefulness of an alternative position to the "deficit hypothesis" and the "differences hypothesis," namely, that environmental/situational factors attenuate the performance of lower-class children, but that their competence, while genotypically equivalent to that of middle-class children,…

In a sample of children with significant learning disabilities, it was found that those born in warm months had higher IQ's than those born in cold months. The effects of temperature and humidity upon neonatal cortex development are offered as a possible explanation of the differences noted. (ST)

Tested the comprehension of 3- and 4-year-old children with probable and improbable sentences in active and passive voice in order to evaluate the importance of semantic support for comprehension of passive sentences. (Author/SDH)

Conservation is positively correlated with reading readiness and intelligence. Suggests that conservation is worthy of attention by primary teachers as a predictor of the child's readiness for learning to read. (ST)

Young children from economically impoverished families displayed deficient general intellectual and language abilities partly as a function of their specific racial or ethnic backgrounds. (WY)

The usefulness of certain psychological tests administered during infancy for the prediction of intelligence test performance during early childhood was the focus of this investigation. (Authors)

The production and comprehension of pointing and their developmental relationship in the young child was examined in a study of 36 male and female 9- to 14-month-old infants. (CM)

A task was used in which subjects at three different Piagetian stages of intellectual development were to induce the missing relationship in different triadic situations. (Authors)

One hundred thirty-six 5-to-10-year-old Israeli children were given three black and white photographs of a highway, a column of identical tanks, and a row of elephants, and were asked some questions on each one of the photographs in order to elicit responses of three-dimensional perception. (CM)

Mothers were asked to predict their children's responses to standardized intelligence test items. Negative correlation was expected between inaccurate maternal knowledge of children's ability and degree of children's psychological development. False maternal predictions correlated - .80 with correct children's responses. Nearly all of the…

Investigates the relationship between maturity of moral judgement and perception of maternal and peer attitudes in Brazilian sixth- and seventh-grade boys. (CM)