The rich complexity of the concepts of masculinity and femininity has been reflected in personality measures in at least two different ways: by employing a variety of subscales with comparatively homogeneous items or by using a single scale with comparatively heterogeneous items. The Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ) was the subject of an…

This booklet contains a speech on the value of discovery learning in building a sound knowledge base. The author contends that systematic concepts (such as spatial relations) should be fully explored by experimentation and discussion in the classroom. The cognitive processes involved in solving problems are examined and examples are given of…

THIS MANUAL, WRITTEN BY A PSYCHOLOGIST, PROVIDES BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE NATURE OF CEREBRAL PALSY AND DISCUSSES FEELINGS AND REACTIONS OF PARENTS OF CEREBRAL PALSIED CHILDREN. INFORMATION ABOUT THE BRAIN AND BRAIN DAMAGE IN RELATION TO MOTOR AND EMOTIONAL FUNCTION, PERCEPTION AND INTELLIGENCE IS PRESENTED. PART TWO GIVES INSIGHT INTO PROBLEMS…

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INTELLECTUAL PROCESSES OF THE LOW-INCOME CHILD ARE PRESENTED. THE MAJOR IMPOVERISHMENT OF THESE CHILDREN IS IN THE AREA OF LANGUAGE SKILLS. ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC IS THEIR POOR PERFORMANCE ON INTELLIGENCE TESTS. IN THE AREA OF PERCEPTIONAL PROCESSES THESE CHILDREN CAN NEITHER DISCRIMINATE SOUNDS WELL NOR PERFORM WELL ON…

Contemporary research provides evidence of a variety of behaviors and conditions encountered in children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds with sufficient frequency to justify the conclusion that they are either induced or nurtured by conditions of poverty. Numerous health-related conditions are felt to have implications for school and…

This study examines the longitudinal relationships between mastery motivation and differentiated measures of intellectual development assessed at 1 and 3 1/2 years of age in a sample of 35 children (21 boys and 14 girls). At one year three types of mastery motivation were assessed using structured tasks: (1) producing effects (engaging in…

A brief discussion of theories of general intelligence precedes a report of relevant empirical data. Results from the factor analysis of more than 20 sets of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) data indicate that the WAIS clearly is not a one-factor scale. It does not measure a single, general intelligence. Roughly 17 percent of the reliable…

There is increasing evidence that significant personality changes take place during adolescence and early adulthood. Among 10,000 high school seniors tested, the group intending to go to college differed in ability, socioeconomic background, parental encouragement, academic motivation and attitudes from those going on to jobs or homemaking.…

A 117-item questionnaire, entitled WHAT COLLEGE STUDENTS THINK, was developed and administered to a sample of 1315 women in two Catholic liberal arts colleges as part of a study designed to identify common patterns of religious, moral, and intellectual-aesthetic student values. Related purposes of the study were to determine whether the value…

This publication is composed of a collection of articles based on the ideas produced and presented at two conferences on productive thinking. Intended, overall, to introduce new concepts of intellectual abilities, the book is divided into four parts: Part I describes a considerable amount of the significant research in "Intelligence and Its…

The purpose of this study was to delineate the implications of language within an educational context as a means of facilitating self-actualization. Three premises identified in a priori fashion were drawn from the literature in linguistics, psychology, and general semantics, creating a three-part language continuum--acquisition, development, and…

This paper asserts that the basic skills, the three Rs, should be considered as a means to an end in education rather than the end in itself. According to the author, one of the most important basic skills is the skill of "basic crap detecting" advocated by Charles Weingartner. Students need to develop their own critical insights. Basic skill…

The first section of this paper deals with the question of whether Piaget is a developmental or a learning theorist; the second section relates Piaget's research findings and developmental theory to a sequence of curriculum units in mathematics. It is suggested that Piaget makes no distinction between learning and development of cognitive…

Five conference reports that originally appeared as monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development concern cognition in young children. Included in a section on thought are articles on Piaget and his theories, computer simulation on human thinking, and an information processing theory of intellectual development. The development of…

Although this edition of Wilhelm von Humboldt's "Linguistic Variability and Intellectual Development" is based entirely on the original German edition, the translators (George C. Buck and Frithjof A. Raven) and the publisher have attempted to clarify certain aspects of this work for the modern-day reader. These features include the addition of…