The STAIC (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children) was administered to 1,522 third and fourth grade Black disadvantaged children from a large metropolitan school district. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of progressive and gradually increasing speed practice on motor skill acquisition using the pursuit rotor. (JD)

Results of the present experiments on raising expectations are consistent with previous experiments in that the generalization effect, while significant, is smaller in magnitude than the direct effect. (Author)

A study compared pupil perceptions of class position with preference rankings by the teacher. Sample was comprised of one class of eight to 11 year old students in a Catholic school in England. Findings indicated that the teacher's opinion of a child is an important influence on pupil performance and self concept. (Author/DB)

Arguments are presented for a view of teaching which is multi-method, multi-person, multi-situation, and multi-variable. (Author/MJB)

Examined were the effects of the elicitor on the language obtained from nine language-impaired children (3 to 6-years-old) in a clinical setting. (Author/IM)

Brown addresses Schonbach's criticism (previous article) of Brown's tribute to Lenneberg (Cognition, June 1976). Brown reviews various research on codability, recognition, and memory of color names; and encourages the development of new generalizations. Although Whorfian hypotheses are appropriate for studying semantic differences, they have not…

Males and females in kindergarten and third grade predicted whether a boy or a girl would succeed on a masculine or a feminine task. Findings support attribution theory and indicate that differential perceptions of male and female performance exist in young children. (Author)

In a laboratory study designed to investigate variables that affect self-regulatory dysfunctioning, 96 college students volunteered to practice solving mathematics problems similar to those found on graduate school admissions tests. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed. (Author)

Success in obtaining tenure and promotion in the atmosphere of today's colleges is achieved by reaching a balance between publishing, research, community service, and competent performance in the classroom. (JD)

This study does not support the contention that individual differences in distance running ability are primarily due to variations in cardiovascular-respiratory capacity, but that the influences of body size, body composition, and running speed should also be recognized. (MB)

This investigation indicates that birth order is significantly related to participation in dangerous sports and that first borns are less likely to engage in risk taking than are later borns. (JD)

A seven-year-old emotionally disturbed boy with some features of the hyperkinetic syndrome was placed on a double-blind placebo control program to assess the effects of psychoactive medications (Ritalin and Dexedrine) on academic and social behaviors. (Author)

Discusses studies investigating children's processing of pictorial information focusing on the "conceptual peg" and response availability hypothesis, the covert verbalization hypothesis, production deficiency hypotheses, the "failure to read" hypothesis and explanations derived from frequency theories. (SB)

Skilled technicians (N=128) working under an assigned goal setting program were studied to learn about the moderating impact of education on relationships between performance and six goal setting properties. Speculation is advanced as to why education is an important moderator variable for specific types of goal setting properties. (Author)