Results supported Piaget's viewpoint that mental imagery and general symbolic functioning are dependent on the growth of intelligence with respect to the preadolescent period. (Author)

"The attitudes young people gain toward performing the various tasks of a home obviously will carry over into their future roles as parents. This study of how such attitudes are developed shows some correlations between methods of assignment and types of directions that can be useful suggestions for teachers. (Editor)

Examined was the attainment of projective spatial concepts of third-, sixth-, and ninth-grade students. Eight Piagetian-type tasks were developed to provide evidence for Piaget's model of groupings of mental structures dealing with time and space. Task performance among grade levels and gender was examined. (CS)

The effects of interpersonal cooperation, competition, and individualistic efforts were compared on math and reading drill-review, story problems, sequencing, triangle identification, and visual sorting according to attributes tasks, using first-grade students. The cooperative group achieved higher scores and found the tasks easier than the…

Male and female undergraduates evaluated an essay attributed to one of the following authors: a 25-year-old male, a 25-year-old female, a 64-year-old male, or a 64-year-old female. Results suggest that young females and old males may be the targets of subtle prejudice which causes their work to be assessed unobjectively. (Author)

Examines the development of social relations in kindergarten, first-, second-, and third-grade children through an assessment of the children's role-taking skills and classification abilities. (CM)