Designed for use in in the home and in professional child-care settings, this program presents developmentally appropriate activities to support development of infants from 1 to 2 years of age. Each of the six 2-month long units contains 24 sets of activities call Activity Plans, with the suggestion to use three activity plans per week. Each unit…

Two models for analyzing thinking about personal identity issues were compared: Marcia's ego identity status system and Kegan's subject-object balances. A total of 61 late adolescent participants (36 women, 25 men) were given Marcia et al.'s (1993) ego identity status interview and Lahey et al.'s (1987) subject-object interview in separate…

Results of animal imprinting studies were generalized to attempt prediction of development of attachment in 28 polymatrically reared Kenyan Gusii infants, ages 6 to 30 months. While results provide evidence against a sensitive phase for attachment, an association was found between age of attachment and developmental level/caregiving history.…

Two experiments investigated 18- to 30-month-old children's memory for the location of a hidden object. Memory performance was significantly better when the object was hidden within the natural environment as opposed to when hidden in a set of boxes. Older subjects effectively used a landmark cue as a memory aid. (Author/RH)

The extent of differences noted between adult phonologies of Black English and standard American English were less evident in emerging phonologies since unique error types were not exclusively characteristic of either group. Findings have implications for articulation testing of Black English-speaking children who have acquired their adult…

In a series of three experiments, first-, second-, third-, and fourth-grade children were asked to recall the names of their classmates. Assessment of their organization according to various classroom groupings (e.g., seating arrangement and reading group) was then performed. (Author/MP)

According to the stage-learning hypothesis, children's ability to learn is constrained by their pretraining stages of cognitive development. Some procedures for obtaining unconfounded tests of this hypothesis are developed in this paper, and some applications to factorial experiments are considered. (Author/BW)

Piaget's theory of development suggests that geographic education should be extended to preschool years when children begin to codify and systematize the world about them. Professional educators should be aware of restrictive environments and help discourage overly structured preschools. Preschool teachers should have training in geography…

This review presents the educational implications of recent research and related theory indicating that morality and convention are understood within distinct conceptual systems with independent courses of development. People differentiate between moral actions affecting the rights or well-being of others and social conventional actions whose…

The rigidity construct is reinterpreted in terms of the cognitive developmental approach. A review reveals both cognitive and developmental themes, with an emphasis on the structural and operational properties of rigidity. Notes weaknesses of previous approaches to rigidity and discusses implications and predictions from the proposed model.…

Analyzes the developmental patterns in the production of analogy by second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade students to determine whether children use different types of analogy as they achieve linguistic maturity. (HOD)

Research described by Walton and Sedlak ("Merrill-Palmer Quarterly," v28, n3, p389-412, 1982) is used to illustrate a movement within the general area of socialization research toward the incorporation of concepts from subareas of psychology. (MP)

Discusses faith in the context of Catholic education as a way of knowing. Describes James Fowler's developmental theories showing the presence of a sequence in the way individuals experience intellectual growth. Presents six short theoretical characterizations showing a family in six stages of faith development. (DMM)

If human cognitive development advances through a series of broad and general stages, then the child's mind at any developmental point should seem consistent and similar across situations in its maturity level and general style. However, there appear to be factors and conditions that promote homogeneity and heterogeneity in the child's cognitive…

Discusses four stages through which writers pass during prewriting. Offers ways of helping students pass through these stages so that they can begin to organize their writing more effectively. (RL)