There is no accepted definition of "needs" of the elderly. Perceptions vary with age, professional role, relationships, and time. The wide range of methodologies presents problems. Research instruments are being refined. The use of index of incapacity measures offers the best data base for planning needed services. (Author/NRB)

Addresses the questions of whether young children would differentially utilize spatial and thematic cues for recall and/or organization and whether such effects would persist over time. Subjects were 60 fifth-grade and 60 preschool children. (MP)

Two experiments were conducted to study the development of mental rotation abilities in late childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Subjects were third, fourth, and sixth graders, and college students. (MP)

Examines the development of grapheme-phoneme conversion ability in normal and reading-age matched dyslexic readers. Thirty-six normal readers (mean age 9.5 years) and 18 children diagnosed dyslexic (mean age 12.1 years) served as subjects. (MP)

Between 24 and 26 children in each of grades 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 (with mean ages of 8.5, 10.2, 13.0, 15.0, and 16.6 years, respectively) were tested in their ability to solve linear syllogisms. (Author/MP)

Reports on the findings of a comparative study of mental abilities of Mexican and American children. Discusses age, sex, social class, and urban-rural differences, as well as cultural differences. (SS)

This study attempts to examine further the possible differences between Black-White relations in the United States and native-White relations in Canada as they relate to racial preferences and identification in school children. The role of self-concept is also examined. (Author/EB)

The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule was administered to three samples rural high school students. Distributions of scores were similar to Edwards' college sample, except in the area of sex differences. (JKS)

Body build stereotypes of average-weight and heavy females, ages 6, 15, and 19, were studied through adjective checklists and drawings of endomorphs, ectomorphs, and mesomorphs. Mesomorph drawings were favored and the endomorphs least liked. But heavy subjects rejected for themselves behavioral stereotypes previously applied to the endomorph…

Children aged 5-11 were asked to compare identical moral acts involving a grown-up or a friend. Contrary to Piaget, there was no evidence of an increasing solidarity among peers to the extent that, for example, children think it worse to lie to a friend than to an adult. (Author)

A 14-item questionnaire was administered to 240 White middle class high school students to assess the seriousness of typical adolescent problems. The three most worrisome problems were physical appearance, careers, and grades. Sex, age, and college v work-bound differences are discussed. The questionnaire is included. (Author/SJL)

This study examined the effects of one alternative school's program on the self-esteem of two adolescent age groups: 15 and 16.5 years old. Results indicated that the younger group experienced significant change in their attitudes toward themselves while in the program, but the older group did not. (SJL)

This essay attempts to describe how age relations are important to the social behavior of preschool children. Major behaviors examined are sociability, friendship, aggression, and dominance. Imitation, cognitive development, social cognition, nurturance, and prosocial behavior are also briefly considered. (Author/SJL)

Twenty-four teachers of the gifted enrolled in a master's program in gifted education responded to instruments designed to elicit their attitudes toward gifted children. Prior to the program their perceptions of "the typical gifted child" and "the most gifted individual whom I have taught" were highly similar. (Author)

Investigates how two traditional early childhood activity settings, the block and housekeeping areas, influence young children's play and social behaviors. (Author/MP)