The affective development of 499 children in grades 3 through 12 was assessed through the use of instruments measuring self-esteem, locus of control and achievement motivation. (CM)

Children 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15 years of age were tested on their ability to identify simultaneous and time-staggered dichotic consonant-vowel stimuli. (JBM)

This study sought to determine if there is a shift with age in affection (1) from parents to friends, (2) from one parent to the other, and (3) from same-sex to opposite-sex friends. Subjects, eighth graders and eleventh graders, completed the Measurement of Family Affective Structure. (Author)

Twenty-four elementary school children ranging in age from 7 to 10 years identified tachistoscopically presented arrays varying in length and degree of orthographic constraint. (Author/MP)

The present experiment was designed to assess possible age-related differences in metamemory accuracy and efficiency by using a feeling-of-knowing judgment in conjunction with a timed question-answering task. Subjects were 12 college students (19-22 years of age), 12 middle-aged (44-53 years) and 12 elderly (65-74 years) persons. (Author/MP)

Children's ability to produce and use natural language mediators on a paired-associate recall task requiring self-generated elaboration was analyzed. Elaborations were recorded and classified according to a semantic-syntactic scheme. Comparisons between grades were made to determine the effectiveness of elaboration categories in facilitating…

Assessed test bias on the Wechsler Intelligence Test for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and Bender-Gestalt. On the Bender, evidence of bias was infrequent and irregular. On the WISC-R, group differences were most discernible for age, sex, family structure, and race. Consistent patterns of bias were not apparent among comparison groups. (Author)

The ability to efficiently allocate attention between two tasks (auditory and visual memory tasks) differing in payoff was investigated among three grade levels: second, fourth, and college. There were seven males and three females from each grade level. (MP)

Tests the hypothesis that, while the difference in rate of smiling to O degree v non-O degree orientations will diminish with increasing age with silent and/or unfamiliar faces, infants over 14 weeks of age should continue to discriminate between a talking familiar 0 degree face, and all other combinations of orientation, familiarity, and silent…

Two experiments demonstrated that third and sixth graders consistently selected certain strategies for solving old and new, empirical and value, contradictory information. Subjects were 320 children. (MP)

A visual search task was used to investigate the development of word processing skills used in reading meaningful text, and to evaluate the relative difficulty of employing different types of units. Subjects were 20 second graders, 19 fourth graders, and 20 college students. (MP)

A double blind, placebo controlled, crossover study using methylphenidate as a standard and two doses of imipramine was carried out in 30 hyperactive children (mean age 8.5 years). Particular emphasis was placed upon imipramine's action on cognitive function, physiological function, and self-esteem, and upon dosage effects. (MP)

The Classroom Human Resources Interview was developed to examine children's perceptions of all human resources--teachers, peers, and other adults--available in team-teaching classrooms. (MP)