Describes the physical and emotional changes of adolescence and suggests ways teachers can help their students cope with these growing pains. (JMB)

This research focuses on generational aspects of political alienation specifically on whether there is a generational basis to recent patterns of political alienation. (Author/AM)

Four hundred and twenty-seven deaf students (age 10 to 19 years) and 60 hearing children (age 8 to 10 years) judged the grammaticality of sample sentences which contained infinitival or gerundive complements. (Author/SBH)

These experiments consider the effects of aging on response times to stimuli of increasing complexity in serial choice RT tasks, whether age differences were reduced or abolished on such tasks, and examines repetition effects of a particular coding rule. (Author/RK)

Two-hundred and eighty college students were asked to establish priorities for assigning tutorial help to children failing in school. (Author)

Seventy two first, second and third grade boys and girls were administered seriation problems involving different combinations of shape and color variation. Success rates and latency scores were influenced by shape variation, but not by color variation or grade level. (BD)

This study was designed to investigate the role of the social desirability response tendency in the discrimination learning of first and fifth grade children. (BD)

Examined death attitudes among 74 female college reentry students aged 30 through 49. Found relationships between: (1) developmental factors and death concern, death as interpersonal loss, and death as dimension of time; (2) age and death anticipation; and (3) income and death denial. Results suggest importance of considering both developmental…

Stories written by school-age children were examined for sex and age differences in the assignment of emotions and prosocial and aggressive behaviors to the story characters. (Author/ABB)

Examined the relationship between cohesion and coherence in children's writing and investigated the degree to which this relationship would vary with quality of writing and grade level. Concludes that the relationship between cohesion and coherence did not vary according to quality of writing or grade level. (SRT)

Comparison of the free recall of learning-disabled (N=24) and non-disabled (N=24) eight- and ten-year-old readers during directive and nondirective encoding conditions found that both groups recalled more semantically- than nonsemantically-organized items. Learning-disabled readers preferred to encode categorically-organized items nonsemantically…

Administered Mental Health Servicves Questionnaire to 100 older and 100 middle-aged adults. Found that age groups did not differ in how they defined serious psychological problems. Both age groups equally identified professional mental health services as appropriate for helping individuals with psychological problems. Although age did not affect…

Preservice special education teachers (N-62) rated their ability to work with a young child to be greater than with older students, despite older students being viewed as more academically and socially competent. Significant influences of labels (trainable/severely retarded) were clear only on academic subscales and not on social or self-appraisal…