This study examined the effects of 3 situational contexts varying in demands for accuracy and speed on the performance of 45 kindergarteners and 45 second grade students on the Matching Familiar Figures test of cognitive style. (JMB)

The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between children's cognitive understanding of the concept of "kindness" and their performance on tasks requiring cooperative and helping behavior. Subjects were 184 preschool, kindergarten, fifth and sixth grade children. (BD)

Results indicate that subjects first observing apparatus operation by electromechanical means performed task better than those who had not, and that there is no significant difference between performance of subjects who had observed demonstration by electromechanical device and those who had observed a human model. Applicability of findings…

Three experiments involving balance scale problems were used to characterize and explain developmental differences in three domains of children's thinking: existing knowledge about the problems, ability to acquire new information about them, and process-level differences underlying developmental changes in the first two areas. (BW)

Various issues peculiar to the management of temporary systems are reviewed, then specific research findings on the three questions of task effectiveness, professional development, and utilization of human resources as related to management style are presented followed by a concluding strategy for the management of such systems. (Author)

On the basis of the parameters measured in this study, students completing a curriculum in medical technology with a shortened clinical laboratory phase plus structured courses in basic clinical science performed as well in an employment situation as students completing a curriculum with a full year of clinical laboratory experience. (Author)

Results of this study indicate that behavior-modification learning techniques, as used in this study, facilitate auditory recognition in culturally deprived children. (Authors)

Results of this study offer clear evidence that the verb facilitation effect in children's associative learning is not dependent on the presentation of a consistent verb connective. (Author)

School achievement was positively related to performance on the abstract task and was generally unrelated to performance on the concrete task. (Authors)

The most significant finding is that classification according to complete similarity not only occurs much earlier than reported by Inhelder and Piaget, but also does not follow the developmental course reported by Inhelder and Piaget. (Author)

Aim of the present study was to clarify the processes involved in the apparent lag in copying a diamond by reducing the lag experimentally with perceptual training of discrimination of orientation. (Authors)