How do teachers teach gifted students whose emotional age trails their chronological age? How can they integrate those students into their classes so that these students mature while not detracting from the learning of the other students? In this article, the author offers pieces of advice on teaching gifted students whose emotional ages trail…

Despite Spitz's (1982) contention that his conclusions are necessarily in conflict with those arising from factor analysis, this article demonstrates how results from factor analysis can provide insights into data he cites. (Author/MP)

Applies the confluence model to a longitudinal intact family data set. Also tests the data with simple linear models. Results suggest that the confluence model should be rejected as a useful model for these data based on principles of parsimony and predictability. (Author/AS)

Persons representing the extremes of intelligence cannot be included in the same study unless they are approximately equated on mental age, in which case the relative performances of the extreme groups can provide useful information about the nature of intelligence. (Author/RD)

The paper notes A. Hore and W. Tryon's support of the developmental position that persons with and without mental retardation of similar mental age show similar cognitive patterns, but suggests that mental age is psychometrically invalid and Piagetian tasks are inappropriate to evaluate this position. An information processing approach is…