Examined imitative recall for sentences conforming to the grammatical rules of standard English versus those suggested for nonstandard (black) English. Subjects included black and white third and fourth grade children grouped according to socioeconomic background and attendance at either racially segregated or intergrated schools. (SDH)

Analyzed 20 test items for evidence of concordance for samples that included at least 120 pairs of identical twins and 85 pairs of same-sex fraternal twins at ages 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Also computed within-pair correlations for the total number of Piagetian-equivalent items passed. (Author/SDH)

Offered empirical arguments and theoretical analysis for the view that parental discipline is more likely the antecedent than the consequent of the child's moral internalization and that discipline provides experiences necessary for internalization. Also conceptualizes parent-child relations in terms of everyday interaction and long-term effects.…

Reexamined the theoretical question of early childhood egocentrism by replicating Piaget and Inhelder's mountain experiment with variations to insure the age appropriateness of the task for 3- and 4-year-old children. (SDH)

Attempted to clarify issues raised by Block, Block and Harrington regarding the conceptualization, validity and interpretation of reflection-impulsivity. (Author/SDH)

Responded to the various arguments advanced by Kagan and Messer in their rebuttal to the authors' review and research focusing on the interpretation of the Matching Familiar Figures Test. (Author/SDH)

Examined sex differences in the play preferences of 2-year-old nursery school children and determined whether teachers of this age group reinforce female sex-typed behaviors as do teachers of older preschoolers. (SDH)

Investigated the intercorrelations among tasks that appear to require Piagetian formal reasoning to determine whether formal reasoning is used selectively or all-pervasively. Subjects were 60 undergraduate females. (SDH)

Calls attention to several errors in a recent application of canonical correlation analysis. The reanalysis contradicts Cropley's conclusion that "creativity tests can be said to possess reasonable and encouraging long-range predictive validity." (Author/SDH)

Reports four experiments with preschool and elementary school children. The first study involved a localization task and the remaining three required the mental manipulation of spatial information. (Author/SDH)

Tests the hypothesis that there should be an early age range during which inhibiting and facilitating sets do not result in appropriately differential behavior, and that at a subsequent age, there should occur differentiation of GSR conditioning rate as a function of the differential sets. (Author/SDH)

Examines the effects of principle of inference, relatedness of content, and mode of test presentation on the development of the conditional reasoning abilities of primary-grade children. (Author/SDH)