Investigates several aspects or modes of cognitive functioning, or styles, that may be indicative or predictive of success in undergraduate chemistry achievement. A concurrent investigation was also made of nonscience majors' congnitive styles. (Author/HM)

A recently developed test of basic Piagetian abilities, the Colored Blocks Test, is described, and new data collected in rural Hawaii and in a working class Chicago suburb are used to defend its validity as a tool for cross-cultural measurement of cognitive development. (Author/AM)

Investigates the effects of question classification training on the cognitive level and number of questions asked by preservice elementary teachers. Results show that training has a significant effect only on the cognitive level of questions asked. (HM)

In a study of the effects of instructions on reaction times to judgments of the truth or falsity of sentences, 40 undergraduates were provided computer-assisted instruction by either the "true" or "conversion" model and required to judge 64 sentences of all possible combinations of true or false, affirmative or negative, and expletive or…

Examines communication effects gaps in the levels of knowledge and adoption of new ideas between more-advantaged and less-advantaged segments of a social system. (MH)

This study describes the developmental function and cross-age pattern of individual differences in mental test behavior during the first 5 years of life. Accompanying the study are brief commentaries by Ina C. Uzgiris and Earl S. Schaefer and a reply by the authors. (JMB)

Reports results from an experiment conducted to discover relationships between theatre audience members' information processing abilities and their responses to performed plays and to the characters in the play. (MH)

A self-report questionnaire was constructed to measure in children four types of negative cognitive errors derived from Beck's cognitive theory of adult depression. Children with self-reported symptoms of depression, low self-esteem, and evaluation anxiety endorsed each type of negative cognitive error significantly more than did their lower…

Seven techniques for measuring information processing in infants are proposed to aid in the early identification of mental retardation. The techniques are based on conditioning, attentional, and manual exploration paradigms and could be combined into an assessment battery more valid than current infant IQ tests in predicting later disability.…

Neuropsychological assessment of cognitive and behavioral sequelae of pediatric closed head injury involves identification of manifest disabilities and relationships between these disabilities and core skills. Assessment of moderator variables is crucial for development of appropriate intervention strategies. Advocacy may be necessary to establish…

The Learning Style Inventory (LSI) and the newly revised Learning Style Inventory (LSI II) were examined for internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and stability of the four classifications resulting from their scores. Internal consistency was improved in LSI II, but problems with low test-retest indices and classifications stability…

Considered in the article on issues in special education and the culturally and linguistically different child are long term planning, the low achieving minority child, language assessment, cognitive assessment, and instruction. Emphasis is on testing in the dominant language, since a true disability must be apparent in both languages. (DB)

Though the most widely used "Intelligence" tests have changed little in the last half century, the author predicts a variety of new influences of future intelligence testing, ranging from the ways we conceptualize intelligence, to the manner in which we pose problems to assess it. (Author/JAZ)

Describes four experiments in childhood autism used as research examples in areas of cognition and social skills. An hypothesis which attempts to connect various areas of impairment, nemely, lack of imaginative play, lack of expressive gestures, and inability to predict and understand behavior in others is explored through a specific cognitive…

Discusses objections to her research raised by Alexander and Pallas, and defends her results. Educational researchers have been persistently trivializing the importance of schooling effects. The research community should attempt to specify how schools do make a difference. (CS)