Investigates two major aspects of the self-concepts of preschoolers: diversions used by three- to five-year-old children to describe themselves and the saliency of activity as opposed to body image in the children's self-concepts. (CM)

Studies the effects of distinctive features on incomplete picture recognition for three to four year olds, five to six year olds, and adults. (Author/SS)

Pairs of elementary school children at different concept development levels were given problems to discuss, in order to examine the prediction, derived from the equilibration model, that when two children holding different beliefs must arrive at a consenus, the child possessing the higher level of cognitive development will prevail over the child…

A reaction time paradigm was used to investigate developmental differences in ability to rotate and compare imaginal representations. Subjects were 16 children from the third and fifth grades, and eight college students. (Author/MP)

A profile of international Dominican migrants, most of whom come to the United States, is provided. Reasons for migration by age, sex, and social status are discussed and return migration patterns are examined. (Author/MC)

A review of 20 United States studies of adolescent sexual behavior was undertaken to integrate data accumulated over the past three decades. Several methodological incongruities made comparisons difficult, so suggestions are made for future research. Available data suggest a gradual evolution, not a revolution, in adolescent sexual behavior.…

Participants aged 17-26, 39-51 and 59-76 solved concept problems to investigate intellectual correlates of concept identification as a function of stage of learning in adulthood. Differential ability-performance relations as a function of stage of learning were considerably less potent in the elderly v the young and middle aged. (Author)

Tested hypothesis that the institutional nature of old-age homes increases depression in the elderly. Results provided no support that the aged are more depressed. Somatic complaints can be indicators of depression in the elderly if normative differences between young and old are taken into account. (Author)

Children from grades 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 were administered a modification of Ellis' eleven irrational beliefs questionnaire. As predicted, the younger children showed higher irrational scores, indicating that endorsing irrational beliefs is a function of age. Construct validity and uses of the scale are discussed. (Editor/SJL)

It was found that the autistic Ss' skills of comprehension and conversation improved significantly with age, and that speech improved somewhat as well, but that maladaptive behaviors other than hyperactivity did not change significantly with age. (Author/DLS)

A survey of 481 individuals from a major southwestern metropolitan area suggests that a newspaper audience is not monolithic but rather a collection of numerous subsegments with different attitudes and needs regarding newspapers. (GT)

Tested the hypotheses that errors of ommission would occur more frequently than errors of commission and errors would be related to stimulus complexity. A total of 48 children from grades 1 and 3 were given a memory task (involving visual and haptic memory) for recognition of random polygons. (MS)

A total of 84 Israeli middle- and upper-middle-class nursery school, second and fifth grade children were subjects for a study investigating parallel shifts in dimensional salience and the dominance of these dimensions as organizing principles in memory. (MS)

In Experiment one, 48 students in second, seventh and twelfth grades performed a recognition task in two sessions. In Experiment two, 16 second and 16 twelfth graders were subject to two response conditions, naming and recognition. (MS)

Those in the 60+ age category possess value orientations toward education that are quite different from those of younger adults. The older adults' value orientation toward education and those institutional characteristics that attract them to continue educational pursuits are identified and discussed. (Author)