Twenty children, 3-12 years old, were given a newly constructed interview on their concepts of human reproduction (social causality), in conjunction with Piaget-type tasks assessing physical conservation-identity, physical causality, and a new social identity task. The children's concepts of human reproduction appeared to proceed through a…

Success and failure were experimentally induced by means of a puzzle task, and subjects were then required to perform two dependent tasks from which outerdirectedness was inferred. Results supported the hypothesis that children shift from an outerdirected to an interdirected problem-solving style as age increases. (Author)

Guidance workers need to become psychological educators. The article dis&usses the aims of education and the ideas of John Dewey and Jean Piaget. The Minnesota Psychological Education program is briefly described. Presented at an Elementary School Guidance Conference, Hopkins, Minnesota, September, 1974. (Author/BW) sota, September, 1974.…

This study investigates the relationships between the ITPA, which measures the development of specific language abilities, and the CAK, which is the most readily available measure of the development of conservation, in a sample of non-pathological preschool children. (Author)

Children were grouped according to ability to conserve number and then randomly assigned to training on arithmetic concepts or playing a game. The research hypothesis that there would be an interaction effect between conservation and effect of treatment was not confirmed. (SD)

The author interprets several mathematical concepts as groupings using Piaget's definition. He also discusses (briefly) the implications for primary education. (SD)

Three experiments with children between 5 and 7 years are described. It is shown that nominal predication of an unknown word by a superordinate term enables young children to make appropriate inferences concerning its attributes. The results are discussed in relation to semantic development and reasoning in the young child. (Author/RM)

The article traces the socialization patterns among the Chicano bar and judiciary in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. New Mexico's Chicano bar is detailed and examined. (NQ)

The author takes exception to Piaget and Inhelder's conclusion that a child's first conceptualization of space is topological. (JP)

Two contrasting views of the form and structure of knowledge are discussed -- an audiovisual model vs a computer tape library. The importance of two distinct psychological systems to represent language and knowledge of the world is stressed. (AM)

Formulates further propositions towards a comprehensive structural developmental theory of cognitive change with focus on: a) organization of subject's assimilatory operations and accomodatory figurations; b) intrinsic coordinations between the theoretical and empirical cognitions constructed, respectively, by these two kinds of functional…

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (Chicago, 1968).

Research supported in part by OEO Headstart Subcontract No. 1410 with Michigan State University Headstart Evaluation and Research Center.

Study supported in part by U.S. Office of Education Grant.