Shows a wide variety of task performance ability. Supports the hypothesis that the tasks require the use of the same or a unified set of cognitive processes. (RL)

Attempts to determine whether infants' performance in two search tasks is related to their entry into Stage 6 of object permanence development (thereby testing Piaget's claim that only Stage 6 infants possess the capacity for representation). (BD)

Discusses three experiments designed to examine the problem of the internal representation of meaning of a verbal stimulus. (Text is in Italian.) (CFM)

Four kinds of understanding of mathematics are suggested: instrumental, relational, intuitive, and formal. Each type of understanding is described and illustrated. (MN)

Inadequacies of previous theoretical formulations of the concept of empathy are discussed. A comprehensive theory of empathy which considers the role of various cognitive, affective and social factors is postulated. (BD)

It is argued that wheather the course of cognitive development is characterized by growth, stability, or decline is less a matter of the metamodel on which the theories and data are based. Such metamodels are representations of reality that are not empirically testable. (Author)

This article describes a series of experiments concerning the relationship between cognitive processes and learning a second language. Similarities and differences between first language acquisition and second language learning by children and adults are discussed. (CFM)

The author presented young children with reasoning problems. Summaries of performance on diverse problems are presented. (SD)

Concludes that children have a far broader range of intellectual interests than has generally been recognized. Bringing them into contact with fields of knowledge, methods of inquiry in these fields, and the processes of logical reasoning at a time when they have a natural receptivity which can have a fundamental impact on their intellectual…

To determine prevalent philosophies, a questionnaire was sent to junior and senior high school learning disabilities teachers in the Chicago and Denver areas. (JG)

Discussion of a study to determine the correlation between better performance of foreign language students in English and natural talent for languages, transfer of foreign language skills to English, or both talent and transfer. The procedure and results are described. Support for the third hypothesis (talent and transfer) was gained. (AMH)

Relates an experiment designed to test the hypothesis that cognitive change resulting from information inputs can be represented as linear motion of concepts in multidimensional space. (MH)

Discusses a study designed to measure the effects of message threat level, message quality, and initial receiver attitude on attitude change and evaluations of source credibility. (MH)

Investigated were the problem solving strategies of 116 educable mentally retarded adolescents and 65 nonretarded mental age-equated fourth graders. (Author/DB)