Suggests a non-static approach to preschool curriculum planning which would incorporate cognitive learning, while at the same time retaining important program aspects which pertain to the child's physical, social and emotional development. (NH)

Children who survive a severe episode of malnutrition early in life are handicapped in developing skills in reading and writing and are less able to profit from the cumulative knowledge available to man. This may lead to defective functioning, school failure, and subnormal adaptation. (DM)

Investigates the relative roles of positive and negative cue retention on oddity transfer, and seeks to learn how these roles change with age and practice. Age range studied is from 3 to 7 years old. (MH)

Reports that form matching increased with age both in number of subjects with reliable preferences and in strength of preferences, but that at all ages form matches predominated. (Author/DR)

Presents a satirical prediction of developments and trends in the treatment of dyslexia, in the study of the perceptually handicapped, and in linguistics for 1980. (MD)

Previously published in the Journal of the American Optometric Association.

The degree of reality perception of cartoon and human-fantasy televised episodes was measured in four- and five-year-olds. Five-year-olds had a more mature reality perception than four-year-olds. Only five-year-olds had a more mature reality perception of cartoon than of human fantasy episodes. (Author/RD)

Results show individual differences in intelligence progressively stabilizing by school age, with each child following a distinct pattern of mental development. Monozygotic twins became increasingly concordant over an Hes and were closely matched on developmental trends. (Author/RH)

Investigates whether temperamental differences mediated infants' responses to the early environment and explores the nature of the relationship between temperament and cognitive-intellectual development. Subjects, 100 six-month-old infants, were observed in their homes three times over a three-week period. Data suggest a greater reactivity to the…