Results imply that in early childhood education the language of test instructions and reading programs could be better geared to the child's linguistic competence. (Author)

Results suggest that the human infant's response to visual stimulation undergoes change during the neonatal period. (Authors)

In this study the part of the sentence which constitutes what the speaker is talking about is called the topic" of the sentence, and the rest of the sentence is the comment", which provides new information about the topic. (Author/MB)

Findings support the hypothesis that lateral preference, per se, has little effect on information-processing behaviors. (Authors)

An investigation of immediate and delayed vicarious reinforcements upon children's imitative self-sacrificing behavior. (Author/MB)

Study offers some evidence which bears on the amount of influence of the environment upon linguistic capacity. (Author)

Subjects responded most accurately to sentences representing temporal order and to and then but first" commands than to before/after" commands. (Author)

Authors conclude that social class differences in intellectual development or cognitive style are probably not present during the sensorimotor period. (Authors/MB)

Subjects between 8 and 20 years of age were tested for competence on an exception to a grammatical rule, the minimal distance rule. (Authors)

The theory of social comparison postulates that the tendency to compare one's performance to others' will decrease as a function of the discrepancy between the quality of one's own performance and that of the comparison person. (Author/MB)

White male adults were more negative with black children than with white children whereas there was a nonsignificant difference between the 2 races for white female adults. On trait ratings of the children following the training session, both males and females rated black children more negatively than white children. (Author/MB)