Investigates Inhelder and Piaget's claim that ages six to nine or ten represent a stage in children's learning of the concepts of all and some. (HM)

A Modified form of Sigel's Styles of Categorization Tests discriminated group and individual categorization preferences in 5th, 8th, and 11th graders consistent with the expectations of developmental theory and research for these age groups. (Author/DEP)

This study examined the effectiveness of the Early Childhood Curriculum (ECC) as a viable instrument for the immediate acceleration of cognitive development among preschoolers. During an eight month tutorial project, ten 3-year-old children received one 15 minute lesson each week from the curriculum. (Author/SB)

Argues that the measure of the relationship between width and depth in stream sections in introductory geology courses should be referred to as the width-depth (W/D) ratio, and that the term form ratio should not be used. (SL)

Possible respondents in a 1974 survey of University of Kentucky doctoral graduates were sent either computer-prepared or offset-printed questionnaires, personalized and identical in content. Overall response rates were similar except when the responses were categorized by the academic major of each recipient. (Editor/LBH)

Provides a list of 27 cognitive objectives that are applicable to preschool and early childhood years. Relates elements of the list to the classification systems of Bloom, Gagne, and Briggs. (RL)

Release from proactive interference in mildly retarded adolescents due to taxonomic shifts and rest periods prior to the final, critical-word triad was investigated with 40 educable mentally handicapped persons 18 years old. (Author/MH)

Two studies explored the hypothesis that young children perceive integrally some stimuli that older children perceive separably. In both experiments, kindergarten, second- and fifth-grade children were required to classify sets of stimuli that varied in size and brightness. (SB)

Second of a two part series discussing the nomenclature of organic derivatives of oxo acids. (SL)

The study reported in this paper developed a categorization of teacher physical motion in relation to verbal actions and analyzed two random samples of such motion as a basis for posing ten hypotheses concerning teacher nonverbal behavior. (MJB)

The "property-set model" is proposed for concept learning and subsequent recognition and classification of old and new exemplars. In an experimental evaluation of alternative models, the property-set model was the best predictor of both recognition and classification performance. (Author/RM)

A developmental psychologist discusses the meaning of "moral development" and suggests ways to implement classroom activities fostering the moral growth of pupils. (MB)

Subjects were 72 first, third and fifth graders. Stimuli consisted of an initial set of 20 unrelated pictures, and a second set of 20 pictures which could be classified according to four superordinate categories. (MS)

Seventy-two first grade students and 72 freshman college students participated in a study designed to test the hypothesis that the younger the child, the more perceptible are the attributes used in judging equivalence in sorting tasks. (BD)

Outlines a pragmatic categorization of English and German phraseological idioms and shows how this scheme can be implemented in the foreign language classroom. The categories include (1) Individual and the World, (2) Focus on the World, (3) Interaction/Interrelationship of Individuals, and (4) Focus on the Individual. Each category is subdivided…