This study examined the equivalence of objects and pictures of objects in transfer discrimination of 72 children (ages 24-45 months). (BRT)

The development of perspective taking was explored in kindergarten and second grade children using a referential communication task. (BRT)

The effects of different degrees of stimulus organization on subsequent generalization were studied with 120 fourth-grade children. (BRT)

Three kinds of prosocial behavior (helping, sharing, and comforting) were studied in experimental and natural settings, in 108 children ages 3 to 7 1/2. (BRT)

A total of 221 boys, ages 10-17, were assigned to leadership roles which were either consistent or inconsistent with their social status. The effects of the leadership experience on subjects' Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) stories, self-perceptions and performance were examined. (BRT)

This study was designed to assess the influence of "Sesame Street" and "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," two popular children's television programs, on the social behavior of 26 children. (BRT)

This study investigated 17-week-old infants' response to discrepancy in visual patterns as a function of rate of habituation. (BRT)

Groups of 7 1/2-month-old infants heard 1 of 8 episodes consisting of no, slight, moderate, or large discrepancy between a habituated standard and a transformed auditory stimulus. Patterns of cardiac deceleration supported the hypothesis that attentiveness is an inverted-U function of the degree of discrepancy between stimulus event and schema.…

The verbal, performance, and full-scale IQs of the standardization sample for the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Revised (WISC-R) were analyzed according to sex, race, geographic region, parental occupation, and type of residence (urban or rural) and compared with corresponding data from a 1950 study of the WISC standardization sample.…

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects on 32 preschool children of being imitated and counterimitated (performing the opposite behavior) by an adult. (BRT)

This study explores the ecological correlates of child abuse and maltreatment using a model which focuses on the degree to which mothers are given support for the parent function. (BRT)

The effects of rewards and expectations of future rewards on sharing were examined with 180 Israeli boys at three age levels (ages 6-7, 9-10, and 12-13). A relation between moral judgment and behavior was found. (BRT)

The tendency to delay gratification as affected by sex and group participation was explored in 6- and 7-year-old children. (BRT)

The incidental and intentional learning abilities of high- and low-test-anxious second, fourth, and sixth grade children were explored. (BRT)

In this study, 4-, 7-, and 8-year-old children and parents rated the sex-appropriateness of 52 toys. Results are discussed in terms of social learning factors (acquisition) and cognitive processes (retrieval) governing judgments of stereotype. (BRT)