Purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the environmental and behavioral factors in children's day-to-day lives that are associated with hyperactivity and to examine its stability over time. (Authors)

Major results indicated that (a) mothers who had not attended college were markedly more prohibitive and intrusive than college-educated mothers; (b) mothers were more intrusive with sons than with daughters; and (c) the children were generally obedient. (Authors)

Egocentric children were shown to have inadequate social schema to understand the adult meaning of conformity and independence. (Author)

Findings suggest that maternal child-rearing practices significantly affect the child's response to a given compensatory preschool program. (Author)

Study investigated whether the observed individual differences in visual pursuit endure beyond the neonatal period. (Authors/MB)

Findings support the hypothesis that lateral preference, per se, has little effect on information-processing behaviors. (Authors)

White male adults were more negative with black children than with white children whereas there was a nonsignificant difference between the 2 races for white female adults. On trait ratings of the children following the training session, both males and females rated black children more negatively than white children. (Author/MB)

Results show that there is a marked tendency for Blackfoot children to cooperate with each other when it is adaptive to do so and seem better able to inhibit competitive responses than non-Indian children. (Authors/MB)