Discusses several common misunderstandings regarding theories of competence, especially that of psychological reality of competence formalisms. Argues that the claim of the psychological reality of a mechanism,'' as opposed to a structural description, is only appropriate when the mechanism accounts parsimoniously for the widest possible range of…

Experiments with congenitally deaf children are used to investigate the relationship of language to thought and to affectivity, and the effects of environmental deprivation on intelligence. (DD)

Articulates the position of linquists who believe that the school system must adapt to the language and learning styles of the majority in the inner city schools. (DM)

Study examined the childhood intellectual performance of a sample of black college graduates from poverty backgrounds to determine whether or not (a) they were more intelligent children than their neighborhood peers, (b) they were more intelligent than their own siblings, or (c) they simply came from bright families. (Author)

The challenge of education is to extend the work of education from a classroom perspective which focuses on the child's learning academic subjects in the classroom with a professional educator to a life-time and life-space perspective which extends from birth onward. (Author)

Paper presented at the 24th annual convention of the California State Psychological Association, Corona, Calif., January 30, 1971. (DM)

The authors state that quantity and quality of televiewing have not changed in 20 years and are not a predictor of pupil achievement. (Authors)

The effects of extraneous auditory stimulation on incidental learning in 27 normal (CA 6 years) and 27 retarded (CA 10 and 11 years) Ss was examined. (DB)

Analytic intelligence was a good predictor of communication scores for boys but not for girls. Verbal ability was no better a predictor for girls than boys. The correlational evidence indicates that conventional intelligence tests predict social perspective taking as well as Piaget's measure of spatial perspective-taking ability. (Authors)

Suggests that school arrangements have ironical, ill-understood consequences and frequently meet with failure. (DM)

Results support the hypothesis that the differences between the test results of the middle and lower classes in the individual countries are greater than the differences between the same classes in the three different countries. (Author)

Several differences existed between the sample described in Myers' study (Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1965, 25, 355-363) and that of the present study, particularly concerning educational aspirations and environmental factors. (Authors/CB)

Studied was the relationship of sex and race to the performance of 134 learning disabled and disadvantaged children on four subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. (DB)

This investigation of 133 first grade Ss (25 percent Hispano--75 percent Anglo and 50 percent male), found no significant correlations between objective scores of young children's self-concept and their first or second grade reading achievement. (Author)

In a search for an adequate but efficient substitute, the authors have instituted three evaluations of the relationships between potential WAIS-substitutes and the WAIS itself. The present report describes the first of these researches-- a study of the relationships between the four group ability tests and the WAIS in a mental hospital setting.…