The most significant finding is that stimulus-predifferentiation training elicited lower prejudice scores for children on two indices of ethnic attitudes than did a no-label control condition. (Author)

Revised version of a paper presented at the 79th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlantic City, N.J., April 21-24, 1970; research supported in part by the Science Research Council (U.K.) and by the National Institutes of Health. (RS)

General conclusion is that children of 5 to 7 years of age seem unlikely to be able to respond to teaching methods based on the grammatical structure of sentences. (Author/MB)

Middle-class respondents mistakenly deny that the work ethic is strong among the poor, fundamentally misunderstand how high work ethic leads to increased feelings of insecurity, and mistakenly project for the poor a strong identification of welfare income with income from quasi-illegal sources. (Author)

Article deals with the prejudgement of youth and projects its potential effect upon society as a whole, and suggests viewing trainers as change agents. (Editor)

Study investigated whether visual serial search time for letters differed significantly from visual serial search time for numbers. (Author/MB)

An example of controlling" maternal behavior with 3 1/2-month-old twins is studied by a method of frame-by-frame film analysis. Characteristic infant behaviors regulating social contact with the mother are identified and followed through 15 months. (Author)

Caution is necessary in contemplating placement of adolescent girls with sex role identity problems: postplacement visiting between daughter and mother is important. (Editor)

The congruency ranking of the 150 objectives presented in this research seems to indicate that both teachers and students can agree on the intended behaviors demanded by a substantial number of instructional objectives. (Authors)

Tremendous discrepancies between student and parent perceptions of the environment suggest that even though parents may have a reporter on the scene," their perceptions are still not congruent with those of students. (Author)

Study focuses on children aged 3 to 5 years from 3 London areas. Contrary to expectation, awareness of differences in skin color was not a simple function of age and contact with colored children and adults; no clear evidence of prejudiced thinking was found in the subjects studied. (RJ)