Findings were that imagery instructions for picture pairs were generally more facilitative than imagery instructions for word pairs, with children at this age exhibiting little variability in their capacity to utilize a visual imagery strategy when pictures comprised the learning materials. (Authors)

Spontaneous and model-induced production of a valuational style of inquiry was studied in 128 third-grade children. (Authors)

Those demographic characteristics of adolescents that proved to be most highly significant in relationship to alienation are grade point average, parental approval of friends, and solidarity with peers. (Authors)

The present study, based on teachers' ratings of their 4- and 5-year-old students, examined the correspondence between quantity and sophistication of verbal output and the child's production of gross bodily activity and fine manipulative movements. (Authors)

Boys who took credit for their academic successes and girls who accepted blame for their failures were those most likely to have higher grades and higher achievement test scores. (Author)

Differential teacher behavior toward different students was studied in relation to the attitudes teachers held toward those students. (Authors)

Study showed that the conservation responses acquired through participation in a problem-solving group are enduring and generalizable. (Authors)

In the present study an attempt was made to apply the concept of equity' to the interaction between a representative and his (one person) constituency in a distribution of resources task. (Authors)

Experiment was concerned with the validity of the assumptions involved in the proposal of some minor modifications in the frequency theory of verbal-discrimination learning. (Author/CB)

Research was designed to extend the encoding variability hypothesis to highly integrated verbal units and to explore the relationship between stimulus and response meaningfulness in an A-C transfer paradigm. (Authors)

Using recognition rather than recall test procedures gives results which are inconsistent with the main features of the visual trace model for short-term memory. (Author)

An experiment is described on the free-recall learning of a list of high-frequency words. The results are consistent with the view that the number of mnemonic units' or chunks' recalled remains constant over trials and over a retention interval of one week. (Authors)

Contrary to expectations the internal'' teacher desired more control of his environment than did the external'' teacher. The study provides an explanation of these findings, forcing a reconsideration of some of the generalizations that have been made regarding locus of control. (Authors/CB)

The Concept Assessment Kit Conservation test was administered to 250 children from 6 countries. Results indicated that the age trends in conservation development for both males and females are fairly consistent from culture to culture. (DM)