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Dyer, Kathleen – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1987
The study evaluated a reinforcement theory of stereotyped behavior with six autistic students (ages 9-16). Three students evidenced decreases in stereotypy and increases in responding in the presence of usual reinforcers, while the other three students required external suppression of stereotypy before increases in responding were shown.…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Modification, Elementary Secondary Education, Reinforcement

Goodman, Gail S.; Haith, Marshall M. – Child Development, 1987
Maintains that Teyler and Fountain's presentation (1987) contains several limitations, namely, that the authors do not (1) distinguish between learning and memory, nor between storage and retrieval; (2) address the role of knowledge-based influences in memory and learning; or (3) employ concepts that can accommodate developmental phenomena in the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Learning Theories

Covell, Katherine; Abramovitch, Rona – Child Development, 1987
Children 5 to 15 years old answered questions on causal attributions of their own and their mothers' emotions, and methods for inferring and changing maternal emotion. Parents were asked reciprocal questions. (PCB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Children, Influences, Mothers

Ninio, Anat; Rinott, Nurith – Child Development, 1988
Results indicated that (1) fathers who were less involved in child care attributed lesser competence to infants than did more involved fathers; (2) fathers generally attributed lesser competence to infants than mothers did; and (3) as fathers' involvement in infant care increased, their attributions became more similar to mothers'. (RH)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Child Rearing, Cognitive Ability, Fathers

Cameron, Kim S.; And Others – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1987
Clarifies the meaning of organizational decline by delimiting it from related constructs (turbulence, stagnation, and environmental decline). Investigates certain organizational attributes associated with turbulence and decline in 334 higher education institutions over a six-year period. Results suggest that organizational attributes associated…
Descriptors: Administrators, Centralization, Declining Enrollment, Higher Education

Houser, Lloyd – Library and Information Science Research, 1986
Proposes scientific theory of the subject matter of library and information science and how it can be organized in terms of the function of documents and their basic use. A hierarchy of classes of documents is described including one, several, or all of the following: information, creativity, understanding, and explanation. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Classification, Information Science, Intellectual Disciplines, Library Science

Clignet, Remi – Issues in Education, 1986
This essay summarizes how distinct sociological traditions account for cycles of censorship. Positivist or functionalist modes of analysis are contrasted with the stances of symbolic interactionist researchers. Understanding of cycles in the production of obscenity and censorship is needed to discover appropriate social action. (CJH)
Descriptors: Censorship, Educational Philosophy, Instructional Materials, Models

Van der Veer, R.; IJzendoorn, M. H. van – Human Development, 1985
Criticizes the distinction between lower and higher psychological processes in Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory. Shows that Vygotsky separated these processes too sharply and that his conception of lower processes as "natural" and "passive" is false. Suggests that these shortcomings can be overcome within the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, History

Shultz, Thomas R.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
The purpose of present experiments with subjects approximately three, five, and seven years of age was to provide additional evidence for the obviousness of the generative transmission principle and to provide initial evidence for the secondary principles of absence and facility. Empirical support was found for each of these selection principles,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Concept Formation, Perceptual Development

Skovsmose, Ole – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1985
The relationship between mathematical education (ME) and critical education (CE) is considered. Three alternatives in ME are discussed: structuralism, pragmatism, and process-orientation. These are related to key terms of CE to show the extent to which ME and CE contradict each other: there is no integration between the two. (MNS)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Learning Processes, Mathematics Education

Heslep, Robert D. – Educational Theory, 1984
This article discusses sensory perception. The author reorganizes a previous conception of the interaction between sense organ and physical object and suggests how educational researchers study the perception of physical objects. (DF)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Educational Theories, Perception, Philosophy

Burrell, Quentin L. – Journal of Documentation, 1985
It is shown that Trueswell's empirical 80/20 rule arises from type of stochastic model for library loans presented by Burrell and Cane. Particular attention is paid to previously suggested uses of rule in identifying "core collection" for library noting that length of time period is of crucial importance. (20 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Graphs, Library Circulation, Library Collections, Mathematical Models

Frese, M.; Stewart, J. – Human Development, 1984
An action theoretic account of skill learning and skill use is offered as a useful heuristic for life-span developmental psychology. The version presented is one that is particularly prominent in industrial psychology in the German-speaking countries. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology, Feedback, Meta Analysis

Eckensberger, L. H.; Meacham, J. A. – Human Development, 1984
By way of providing a framework for discussion, defines intentional action as a basic unit of analysis that includes being future-oriented, a free choice of means, potential consciousness of goals and means, and responsibility.(RH)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Differences, Definitions, History

Wertsch, J. V.; Lee, B. – Human Development, 1984
Argues that linguistic communication allows the incorporation of individual, microsociological, and macrosociological levels of analysis into a general theory of action. (RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Individual Development, Social Influences