Using stereotypes, researchers have predicted that novelty seeking declines in adulthood. Through this cross-sectional study, the authors revealed that only the external sensational type of novelty seeking declined, whereas the internal sensational and internal and external cognitive types remained stable or increased. A population of 233 adults…

Developmental changes in a variety of cognitive processes as a function of age and schooling were examined in 160 rural Guatemalan children aged 5, 7, 9 and 11 years. (BD)

Ninety-six 6- and 9-year-old girls participated in a study designed to determine whether a rewarding function would be attributed to fortuitious physical events when they occurred in conjunction with "good" behavior. (BD)

Selected vocal and gestural imitation items were presented to twenty-four 8-, 14- and 20-month-old boys and girls in an elicited task situation. Both vocal and gestural imitation increased with age, although for each age group there was significantly more gestural than vocal imitation. (BD)

The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between children's cognitive understanding of the concept of "kindness" and their performance on tasks requiring cooperative and helping behavior. Subjects were 184 preschool, kindergarten, fifth and sixth grade children. (BD)

The study tested the existence of communication between visual and haptic senses with 3- and 5-year-old children. Major finding: only visual-haptic training improved performance on the haptic indentification test. Apparently there was no transfer across sense modalities. (ST)

Experiment designed to test the hypotheses that children's moral judgments are dependent upon sanctions; that independence of sanctions increases with age; that the dependent upon sanctions is determined by the content in the story problem and the type of sanction employed. (Authors/CB)

Experiment designed to collect further data related to the type of solution applied to the learning of a multiple-problem (ten) oddity discrimination. (Author)

An image of the retarded emerged from the drawings, which, generally, were convergent on the adult level but divergent for the adolescents. (Authors)

Younger and older African American and Caucasian American adults, who were matched by age ("M" age = 40.63 years), completed a survey on perceptions of aging and subjective age. The 2 groups did not differ in the age they considered someone to be old ("M" age = 74.5 years). However, when asked which age was the happiest age, African Americans…

Attempts to clarify the basis for the unusual responses to observed movement by 7-year-old children, as compared to adults, discovered by Olum. Subjects were 40 first and third graders. Results indicate that these responses are genuine and that they go through a developmental evolution. (SDH)

Attempted to clarify the relationship between dependency and imitation using 73 preschool children as subjects. The children's degree of emotional dependency was found to be related to their propensity to imitate the model's irrelevant behavior (i.e. incidential learning). (Author/SDH)