Members of Average (adjustment) Families made decisions faster and talked more equally to one another than members of Low (adjustment) Families and had higher normality scores than either High or Lows. (Author)

Experiment studied the effectiveness of social reinforcement by a model who demonstrated varying degrees of commitment to the norm of giving or social responsibility. (Authors)

Relevance of cognitive and developmental variables to observational learning and imitation is also discussed. (Authors/MB)

Study investigated the effects of inconsistency of instructions, order of presentation of instructions, and sex of child upon children's behavior in a resistance-to-temptation situation. (Author)

Results appear to indicate that the belief systems of the young child about the attributes of a stimulus person can be altered extensively by introducing characteristics completely unrelated to these attributes into the semantic representation of that person. (Authors)

Research was designed to determine whether developmental differences in sensitivity to more peripherally presented material could be found under conditions in which overt eye movements during the presentation of task material were not possible. (Author)

Effects of country of origin and social class on sex differences in body articulation were also analyzed. (Authors)

Findings suggest that maternal child-rearing practices significantly affect the child's response to a given compensatory preschool program. (Author)

Study investigated whether the observed individual differences in visual pursuit endure beyond the neonatal period. (Authors/MB)

Authors suggest a reanalysis of the data and a replication of the experiment described by J. S. Baratz in a previous issue of Child Development (EJ 008 114). (MB)