THE AUTHORS REVIEW THE THEORY OF MOTIVATION PRESENTED BY ROBERT W. WHITE IN HIS BOOK "LIVES IN PROGRESS" (1952) AND IN AN ARTICLE "MOTIVATION RECONSIDERED--THE CONCEPT OF COMPETENCE" (1959). WHITE PROPOSES THE CONCEPT OF "COMPETENCE" TO ACCOUNT FOR THOSE THINGS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR LEFT UNEXPLAINED BY OTHER THEORIES OF MOTIVATION. COMPETENCE IS USED…

An analysis of the elements of creativity and speculation on how it can be taught and fostered in the schools. (HB)

Thirty-one female learning disabled college students were administered a battery of psychoeducational measures. Results revealed that less than one-fourth had significant verbal-performance IQ discrepancy. It was concluded that LD college females may be more similar in intellectual functioning to non LD Ss than their LD male counterparts. (CL)

A subtheory of intellectual giftedness is presented that centers on the role of insight. Component processes of insight (selective encoding, combination, and comparison) are reviewed, and approaches to its evaluation are noted. Results of an intervention study are cited to suggest the feasibility of training insight. (CL)

Screening of 288 youths entering the juvenile justice system revealed that approximately 18 percent were gifted in some way. Gifted Ss differed from normal youth by having high abilities in fluid intelligence yet performed less well on the achievement test in relation to these high fluid abilities. (CL)

Forgetting, as defined by Piaget as Stage IV error, was studied in infants. Results partially support Piaget's hypothesis. (ST)

Ordinality of three subtests of a sensory-motor series was evaluated in a longitudinal study of infants. Results indicated that scalability can be affected by the responses of infants at different developmental ages. (ST)

A review of The Psychology of Play (Penquin, 1968) by Susanna Millar. (DS)

Research concerned with the analysis and correlates of mathematical abilities, conducted primarily during the past decade, is reviewed. It is concluded that certain specific abilities, in addition to general intelligence, affect performance in mathematics. (Author)

Two books relating to Piaget's theory of intellectual development are reviewed. (DB)

Gagne's learning-hierarchy model and the model-testing procedures used in empirical investigations of the model are reviewed. Structural modeling techniques based on path analysis are suggested to represent Gagne's positive transfer hypothesis and associated hypotheses. Implications of structural modeling techniques for research in hierarchical…