A study of developmental aspects of selective attention and task-related strategies of attention in 2nd and 6th graders. Age differences were found and interpreted as reflecting the development of flexible as well as selective attention strategies. (DP)

Investigated developmental changes in children's judgments of age of people in photographs with emphasis on judgments correlating age and physical size. Results were discussed in terms of previous age perception studies and Piagetian Theory. (DP)

Home-environmental processes, socioeconomic indicators, and family structure measures were canonically correlated with four mental abilities of 185, 11-year-old boys. Verbal and number abilities were the most predictable, with the process measures contributing the most to prediction. (DP)

Explored children's conceptions of death from a Piagetian framework. Significant changes in the direction of more realistic attitudes by children were noted as levels of cognitive development advanced. (DP)

A study designed to investigate the effects of permanent maternal separation in infant rhesus monkeys, 60, 90, and 120 days of age, and housed individually or in Paris. Monkeys separated at 90 days and housed individually showed the highest levels of disturbance. (DP)

The interpersonal visual behavior of subjects of various ages was studied as they (1) conversed, and (2) participated in a block construction task with a partner of the same sex and same age. (DP)

Investigated birth order differences and the vocational interests of 150 male college students, making use of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank. Sibling sex and interaction effects were also investigated. (DP)

Compared 13 deaf adolescents with deaf parents and 13 deaf adolescents with hearing parents on the Test of English As a Foreign Language. Results are discussed in terms of implications for teaching strategies for deaf children. (DP)

Two kinds of paired associate lists (complementary and similarity relationships) were presented to middle-aged and elderly subjects for free recall. (DP)

This study of 9 to 10-month-old fearful and non-fearful males examined the relationship of cognitive and affective variables to fear of strangers. (DP)

This study tested Levine's hypothesis testing model of discrimination learning with a procedure for determining which hypothesis is sampled without introducing blank trials. (DP)

Describes the development and testing of an objective measure of moral development, based on Kohlberg's moral stages. (DP)

Three- and four-year-olds who had been in day care from infancy were compared with matched subjects who had no day care experience on eight personality characteristics. (DP)