Addresses questions about infant perceptual ability and the possibility of its decline as a function of development in the absence of specific experience. Compares English-speaking adults, Hindi-speaking adults, and 7-month-old infants on their ability to discriminate two pairs of natural Hindi (non-English) speech contrasts. (Author/RH)

Preschool children were asked to choose the figure most resembling a real man from three figures drawn according to formulas used by children to depict humans. Results suggest development of drawing systems influences children's conceptions about objects or events. (Author/DB)

Reports a study of the correlation between intellectual development and students' understanding of scientific concepts and science processes. Results are reported concerning the reliability and validity of Piagetian or Piagetian-like tasks as measures of students' level of formal reasoning. (Author/SA)

Elaborates on cognitive/academic language proficiency and basic interpersonal communicative skills. Discusses assumptions regarding bilingual program exit and entry fallacies and implications for U.S. bilingual education. Argues that failure to adequately conceptualize the construes of language proficiency and its cross-language dimensions causes…

Reports the results of a study of five-year-olds, which indicate that social relationships are a facilitator of cognitive learning of reading readiness concepts and imaginativeness. Girls in the experimental treatments significantly outperformed the boys. (JD)

Education, not age per se, is related to conservation ability during the adult years. Age differences should not be interpreted as age changes without using the more appropriate designs which separate age and cohort effects. Results emphasize the relationship between education and cognitive abilities among the elderly. (Author)

Curriculum methods and materials need to address the values, individual traits, and learning styles of the handicapped child with racial or ethnic differences. (SBH)

A curriculum for counselor training was piloted with inservice counselors and teachers. Significant gains were achieved in counseling skills and moral reasoning, but shifts in ego and conceptual level failed to reach statistical significance. Implications for training are discussed. A case for a developmental perspective is made. (Author)

Changes in the mental development as assessed with the Griffiths Mental Development Scales, of 37 Down's syndrome infants (mean age 8.9 months at outset of study) over a 6-month period were correlated with scores obtained on the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory. (Author/PHR)

Considers college students both as evolving individuals and as participants in social processes in a particular time and place. Discusses cognition, ego identity, ethics, the impact of college, cognitive and ethical development, ego identity in college, socialization, sex role development and political behavior as well as generational issues. (RH)

Robust interference effects were found which declined with age. Manipulating discriminability of the relevant stimulus dimension resulted in large changes in sorting time, but interference effects did not vary with baseline difficulty. These results were interpreted as strongly supporting both an absolute decrement model and a developmental trend…

Investigates which aspects of the mother behavior in interaction would be related, and in what way, to the child's acquisition of number conservation as a criterion measure of later cognitive development. (MP)

Presents the author's views of what should be done about science teaching and curriculum in the British elementary schools. (HM)

The author discusses how to inculcate in pupils the capacities for liberty, equality, and fraternity, or, stated in other words, the capacities for creativity, for "give and take" among equals, and for perceptiveness of the real needs of others. (MJB)