The present study took a differentiated perspective on parental psychological control to examine its impact on adolescent adjustment among urban (n = 349, females: 53%) and rural (n = 293, females: 54%) Chinese adolescents (M[subscript age] = 12.14 years). Four times over the first 2 years of Junior High school (from October, 2016 to April, 2018),…

Discrimination concerns and parental expectations were examined as mediators of the relations between gender and parenting practices among 796 African American mothers of 11- to 14-year-olds from the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study. Mothers of sons had more concerns about racial discrimination impacting their adolescents' future,…

When adults judge which of two digits is numerically larger, their response times decrease linearly with the numerical difference. For fourth- and seventh-grade children, the slope of the function relating judgment time to numerical difference is similar to that of adults, but much steeper for kindergarten and first-grade children. (Author/JMB)

Three formal operations tasks were presented to children of ages 10, 13, and 17. None of the youngest subjects and only half of the older subjects solved the first task without prompts. A few of the younger subjects and nearly all of the adolescents, however, solved the third task without prompts. (Author/JMB)

Three paper-and-pencil formal operations tests were administered to groups of eighth graders and adults. These measures provided scores that indicated each subject's level of reasoning for three second-order operations: combinations, proportionality, and propositional logic. (JMB)

This study examined the ways in which exposure to moral reasoning statements affected the subsequent behavioral choices of 144 seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade boys at different stages of moral judgement. The presentation of reasoning had different effects on the behavioral choices of subjects at two different stages. (Author/SB)

The effects of open and traditional classrooms on creative expression were investigated using 60 children randomly drawn from grades 1, 4, and 8 from two different school systems. (ST)

Reports two experiments which examine how cognitive style interacts with performance on tasks measuring formal thought. (Author/JMB)

A modified version of Inhelder's and Piaget's bending-rods task was administered twice in succession to 9-, 11-, and 13-year-olds. Subjects were then categorized as spontaneous, latent, or nonusers of the formal operational control-of-variables strategy according to whether they used the strategy on the first, second, or neither administration.…

Fear of success was assessed for 61 fifth-, seventh-, and ninth-grade children using Horner's and Baruch's fantasy measures and a behavioral measure developed by the authors. (Author/JMB)

Strategies of allocating attention to information and incidental learning task performance were assessed among 60 children from grades 2, 5, and 8. Children's predictions about their recall of incidental objects and answers to a posttest questionnaire provided verbal measures of their understanding of attention. (Author/RH)

Sixteen fifth graders and 16 ninth graders representing combinations of high and low SES delivered a persuasive message to each of four hypothetical target listeners. Deriving in part from Bernstein's developmental sociolinguistic theory, messages were analyzed into five major categories of appeal. (Author/JMB)

This study investigated the effects of methylphenidate (Ritalin) on hyperactive children's performance on a paired-associate learning task under 3 presentation rates. (Author/JMB)