It Scale performance of second-born Ss appeared to reflect the influence of the sex of the older sibling. Age-spacing between siblings did not appear to influence sex-role preference, except for males who had an older sister. (Author)

To get our musical environment back under control, we're going to have to go outside of music and devise cultural strategies that will make music visible and audible again. (Author)

A subsidiary purpose of this study was to initially explore the value of visual representations of family life as tools to improve the family perceptions of preschool disadvantaged children. (Authors)

Educators cannot afford to ignore the question of whether sex discrimination or limitations based upon sex-role stereotyping are built into the educational system. (Author)

The development of children's conceptualization of various roles appears to parallel general conceptual development. That is, there appears to be a developmental progression from role concepts based on concrete-specific acts and details to those based on general abstract functions. (Author)

The pattern of significant criteria suggests a decreasing emphasis on higher level cognitive processes, involvement, and independence from Grades 6 through 10 and an increasing emphasis on lower level cognitive processes such as memorization. (Authors)

Subjects were 15 instructors and 342 students in elementary education courses in a midwestern university. In most classes students associated desirable course objectives with those stated for the courses; in the majority of classes students differed from their instructors in assigning ranks to stated course objectives; in approximately half the…

Student perceptions of the distributution of power in colleges and universities may be a factor in campus unrest. This study is an exploratory attempt to measure these perceptions on two different campuses and to compare present perception with what is seen as ideal. (Author)

To examine the relationship of the Flowers-Costello Tests of Central Auditory Abilities and the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, 20 ethnic minority kindergarten children were administered both tests. (Author)

A level prediction task, in the context of Piaget's conservation-of-liquid problem, was used to analyze the regularities of incompetence'' in the nonconserving or noncompensating child. (Author)

The interdistances between thirteen places situated in different parts of the world were estimated by 60 subjects. The estimates were analysed by Kruskal's multidimensional technique and, after a cosine transformation, by factor analysis. (Author)

Special issue devoted to neurolinguistics and neuropsychology. (VM)

Results suggest that cultural disadvantage may act to deter growth in both perceptual and language spheres and that perceptual measures may be somewhat less resistant to cultural influence than are language measures. (Authors/MB)

Inquiry focuses on the language by which children describe various altered bodily states in order to communicate them to others. Parts II and III of this study are PS 502 000 and PS 502 002. (Authors/MB)