Analyzed are the processes of classification and seriation which form the child's ability to reason, based upon the results of eight years of experimental work with over 2000 children. The authors have found that there is a very close relation between the development of logical actions and that of sub-logical operations and actions. The fact that…

A defence of Piaget's theory of moral development against misunderstandings of his overemphasis on genetic maturation, underemphasis on role of intelligence, and imposition of a "universal order. (MH)

Author asserts that curriculum specialists have generally neglected "school settings," or the psychological climate which fosters both intellectual and emotional growth. (HB)

THE CONTRIBUTION MADE BY PIAGET TO KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IS SUMMARIZED. PIAGET'S INFLUENCE ON BERLYNE AND OTHER PSYCHOLOGISTS, THE RESEARCH METHODS USED BY PIAGET, AND THE CONCEPTS HE FORMULATED ARE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED. THE GOAL OF HIS RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT GENEVA IS IDENTIFIED AS THE DISCOVERY OF THE SUCCESSIVE STAGES IN THE…

Earlier version of paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (Boston, Massachusetts, May 1968).

The author presents a series of programmed exercises designed to help teachers develop the skills necessary to incorporate Piaget's concepts of child intellectual development into effective classroom use. (MB)

The relationship between selective attention and learning is investigated in this paper. It is proposed that two forms of attention exist: (1) inspectional attention, which is a simple matching pocess where perceived stimuli are compared with an internal model of the stimulus for which the individual is searching, and (2) comprehensional…

The Omnibus Personality Inventory was administered to a group of students as freshmen, seniors, and alumni (five years after graduation). Respondents exhibited freshman-to-senior personality changes usually associated with college attendance. The orientation to intellectualism and the social-emotional maturation persisted in the years immediately…

The article describes application of the epigenetic model to work with children in the period of early childhood development. The focus is placed on verbal learning. Projects wherein disadvantaged children gain in verbal skills through supervised mother-child interactions are described. The response of families to this approach suggests important…

Developmental data on 612 home reared, Down's Syndrome children, from birth through 16 years of age, were collected over 20 years from an outpatient clinic for mentally retarded children and were statistically analyzed to ascertain normative times of motor, language and intellectual developmental behaviors. (Author/MC)

The junior high school, comprised of grades 7-9, was originally organized to meet the special needs of adolescent students. Current trends in school reorganization favor a middle school comprised of grades 6-8, raising the problem of where to place the ninth grade in the school organization. Assuming that ninth graders should be placed with…