Purpose of this study was to test the adequacy of the serial habituation hypothesis as an account of the infant's perceptual commerce with visual stimuli. (Author)

Study reports a technique for analyzing and categorizing certain gross features of the receptive language environment which constitute the primary source material for all of a baby's language learning. (Authors/MB)

Findings indicate that infant boys may be more easily conditioned by visual reinforcement than are girls. (Author/MB)

Studies of the effects of emotional deprivation during infancy and childhood are cited in this article about the nature and meaning of love. (MF)

Research supported in part by OE Project 5-0415.

The relationships between infants' development and their home environment, mothers' attitudes as parents, mothers' mental adjustment, and families' socioeconomic status were studied. Indices of intellectual and psychomotor development were related to home environment, socioeconomic status, and maternal attitudes. The implications of these…

Highlights a research study indicating that children can spontaneously impose linguistic structure on their communication, even in the absence of a conventional linguistic environment. Subjects (16- to 50-month-old deaf children) had normal social environments but severely restricted language environments because of their disability. (JN)