A developmental study of elementary school children's use of rule v computation in solving spacial perspective-taking problems. (CM)

Investigates the effects of differences in age (20 year olds compared to 60 year olds) and education (high school level compared to graduate level) on level of performance on a variety of tasks related to memory. (Author/SS)

Examines the relationship between the presence and/or absence of perceived chronic deprivation of material and/or nonmaterial rewards and how this relationship affects altruistic behavior. Subjects were 108 seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls. (MP)

Attempts to provide reliability and validity data in support of the imaginary audience construct. The Imaginary Audience Scale (IAS), consisting of two subscales--the Transient Self (TS) scale and the Abiding Self (AS) scale--was administered to 697 subjects at the fourth-, sixth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade levels. (Author/SS)

Examined the development of reasoning about prosocial moral dilemmas in 125 elementary and high school students. Also attempted to determine the relationship of structure of prosocial moral judgment to story solution. (JMB)

Three experiments were conducted to explore the effect of word training on interference patterns in the picture-word task. Subjects were first and second graders. (MP)

This study investigated age trends in children's explanations of their own academic successes and failures. Ability attributions for success and failure in reading were more effectively predicted by reading attainment in older than in younger children. Perception of own attainment was more accurate in older children. Sex differences were also…

Accuracy of expectation for oneself and for another was assessed on a perceptual judgement task with first, third, and fifth graders. Significant main effects of grade and feedback level were observed, whereas the significant performer effect was confounded by a grade X performer interaction. Sex differences were insignificant. (Author/SJL)

Significant, though moderate, correlations between some of the verbal creativity measures and the selective attention variables were found, though this relationship changed as a function of age and the type of creativity measured. (DLS)

Assesses comprehension of the mental verbs "remember" and "forget" among three-, four-, five-, and seven-year-old children by having the child judge whether or not toy characters in different situations remembered or forgot. (Author/RH)

Details a study which contrasts the preference of older students for a more traditional learning environment with that of younger students for an environment conducive to greater interaction. Advocates matching instructional styles with learning styles, especially with regard to these age differences. (DD)

Finds no differences in the degree to which adults and seven-year-old children generalized Spanish stress patterns, although the children showed less interference from English stress patterns than the adults. (Author/RL)

The article gives data on the age, sex, income, geographic region, and ethnic composition of the visually disabled population of the United States (taken from the National Center for Health Statistics records for 1977). (PHR)