Results indicated that instruction by an experimenter using modeling procedures had a significant effect on Mexican-American six-year-old's production of causal questions, and that this behavior generalized to new stimuli without significant loss. (Authors)

A developmental model of paranoid behavior is proposed which includes among its postulates the expectation that sons who have maintained an open style of adaptation to aversive maternal control will be less tolerant of ambiguity than will sons who have adopted a closed style. (Author)

The hypothesis that self-esteem is positively correlated with parental identification was supported for female college students by two out of three self-esteem measures. For male subjects one social self-esteem measure correlated negatively with maternal identification and a self-concept measure correlated positively. No relationship between…

Study explored the influence of the early home environment on the young adult's attitudes; the Anti-Establishment'' group tended to have less stable family relationships. (SP)

Study examined the hypotheses that adults do not speak to children as they speak to other adults and that the speech addressed to a child becomes more adult-like as the child increases in linguistic competence. (Author/CB)

Paternal nurturance and some of its components were correlated significantly and positively with the children's IQ scores in the retesting, suggesting that these paternal behaviors may foster cognitive development. Indications were also found that other paternal behaviors may affect the intellectual growth of the child. (Author)

Reports the results of a research project which focused on the person and experience factors influencing curriculum choices. (SB)

Findings indicate that children who are learning language have available a sample of speech which is simpler, more redundant, and less confusing than normal adult speech. (Author)

Concerned with the intellectual development of women and suggests that its principal determinants are biologically rooted potentials, parent-child relationships and both parent and subtle cultural reinforcement. (Editors)

A new approach, the social control of learning disabilities, argues that the child's disability affects mainly his parents and then teachers and professionals in such a way that their activities to help him are thwarted by the same complex of symptoms as those of the child's disability. (Author)