The paper presented the case of a 9-year-old boy whose physical appearance and behavior were those of a 6-year-old, and questioned whether he should be diagnosed as immature or defective. (Author/GW)

The study goes beyond the well-documented relationship between delinquent associations and involvement in delinquency to a consideration of independent consequences. Findings show that just as actual and potential reaction of peers can influence behavior without necessarily shaping normative commitments at the same time, so sensitivity of children…

A procedure for recording and coding teacher and pupil behaviors in the classroom has been described and suggested as an assessment instrument of the school psychologist. (Author)

Urges teachers to be alert to emotional needs of children, particularly in view of contemporary lack of family cohesiveness and to formalize programs to strengthen children emotionally as part of daily teacher function. (CJ)

Major results indicated that (a) mothers who had not attended college were markedly more prohibitive and intrusive than college-educated mothers; (b) mothers were more intrusive with sons than with daughters; and (c) the children were generally obedient. (Authors)

The results support the premise that behavioral change can be initiated by elementary school counselors or school psychologists if they know what kind of behavior they want to change and have a planned procedure for doing it. (Author)

Findings are discussed in the light of social-learning theory. (Authors)

It was found that there was a stronger negative correlation between honesty scores and cheating incidents among older children than younger. (Author)

It was suggested that working-class mothers less frequently believed that their infants were capable of communicating with other people, and hence felt it was futile to attempt to interact with them verbally. (Authors)