Results supported the expectations regarding field dependence-independence but failed to support those regarding sex differences. (Authors)

Purpose of the study is to examine relationships between internality and achievement-related variables in a performance situation where students determine the difficulty level at which they desire to work. (Authors)

Results suggest that recollections of earlier experienced parental attitudes can be retrospective clues of earlier parent-child interaction along the alienation dimension of an Anti-Establishment vs. Establishment philosophy of early child rearing. (Authors/MB)

It is the thesis of this study that values which govern political behavior develop out of more general values which can apply to virtually and kind of group interaction. (Authors)

Study directed at determining which aspect of photographic representations of children differing along dimensions of race and sex would acquire control over responses of Negro children. (Authors)

Qualitatively, the more suppressive and critical the mother, the less responsive the baby was in social play with her. The more the baby responded to his mother, the less he responded to a stranger. (Author)

Data indicate that the interventions provided differed in their effectiveness in calming newborns to a highly significant degree. (Authors)

The Babkin reflex is a reaction to the simultaneous pressing of the palms of the hands of the infant. (Authors)

Egocentric children were shown to have inadequate social schema to understand the adult meaning of conformity and independence. (Author)

A six-month-old infant who can remove a transparent cloth from his hand when it is covered after he grasps a toy may not be able to remove an opaque cover. Alternative interpretations of the phenomenon, that is, degree of bimanual coordination and focus of attention, are discussed. (Author/MB)

Study is an attempt to increase communication proficiency in young children by using training procedures which focus primarily on making the listener's needs more salient to the child as he forms and gives messages. (Authors/MB)

For the age range tested there is a lag between the perception and production of certain facial expressions. (Authors)

Outerdirectedness has been defined by first author and his colleagues as a style of problem solving characterized by reliance on concrete situational cues rather than by active attempts to deduce abstract relationships. (Authors/MB)

While father absence due to divorce, desertion, or separation had the most negative influence in the initial 2 years of the child's life for boys and girls, father absence due to death was the most detrimental when it occurred in the 6 - 9 period of the boy's life. (Author)

Findings indicate that children who are learning language have available a sample of speech which is simpler, more redundant, and less confusing than normal adult speech. (Author)