Results show that self-disclosure varies with the development of age in urban female adolescents of India. (Author)

Data showed that consistent punishment resulted in faster inhibition than inconsistent punishment; subjects who were punished showed less persistence than subjects placed on an extinction schedule. (Authors)

In most cases, mothers of the undisturbed and fathers of the disturbed children were alike in that they had difficulty in displaying authority over the child. In contrast, fathers of the nondisturbed and mothers of the disturbed families were more authoritarian. (Author)

Study suggests that the effects of father absence on daughters appear during adolescence and are manifested mainly as an inability to interact appropriately with males, rather than in other deviations from appropriate sex typing or in interactions with females. (Author/CB)

Results indicate that the ability to take another person's point of view may play a causal role in the child's attaining popular status among his peers during the early school years. (Author)

The nature of adolescent trait change appears less dictated by are-related components than by the type of social change patterns which are setting the environmental milieu for adolescents of all ages over a given period of time. (Authors)

The conclusion from these results is that while prenatal anomalies or an impoverished home environment may retard development, in the majority of cases the environmental conditions fall within the limits of sufficiency that permit the genetic blueprint to determine the course of infant development. (Authors)

To the authors' knowledge, this is the first conclusive demonstration that an observer's spontaneous verbalizations can interfere with vicarious rule learning. (Authors)

One finding is that the children in this study did not reach a level in the development of these concepts expected by Piaget of 9-year-olds. (Authors/CB)

Children who recognize a compensatory relationship between height-width dimensions are more susceptible to conservation training than children who do not recognize this relationship. (Authors)

The specific hypothesis tested by this research is that children are able to attend to multiple cues simultaneously and are able to use the information contained in these cues. (Author)

The orderly increase in the proportion of subjects who make optional reversal shifts over an age scale that now encompasses a range from 3 to 18 is confirmed. (Authors)

That there are differential rates of development of cross- and within-modal integration is not supported by the present results. (Authors)

Factor analyses of males' and females' reports of maternal and paternal behaviors yielded the same three factors as earlier studies--Acceptance versus Rejection, Psychological Autonomy versus Psychological Control, and Firm Control versus Lax Control. (Authors)

Study found that auditory experience has an indirect influence on rhythm perception, but auditory involvement during the task does not. (Authors/MB)