Urges that novelty-preference research be placed in a broader context encompassing the full range of memory-related behaviors shown by infants. (Author/RH)

Indicates that Kemler raises a number of important issues needing resolution before the understanding of infant categorization is complete, but claims Kemler misunderstands both the goals of the Husaim and Cohen experiment and the extent to which the goals were met. (Author/RH)

Questions Husaim and Cohen's basic assumption that stimulus dimensions or attributes defined by the experimenter have psychological reality for infant subjects. Suggests that infants may perceive different attributes in the stimulus, or they may not articulate the stimulus into attributes at all. (Author/RH)

Based on comments by Kagan (1982), Rothbart (1982), and Plomin (1982) in response to an article on difficult temperament by Thomas, Chess, and Korn (1982), the author concludes that the study of temperamentally difficult children has a favorable prognosis. (Author/MP)

Clarifies several issues in response to recent criticisms of habituation and related novelty-preference techniques used in studies of infant memory. (RH)

Examines some of the methodological issues in the assessment of temperament and raises questions about the desirability of labeling infants as having "difficult temperaments." (Author/MP)

Summarizes several studies of a goodness of fit model of psychosocial functioning. This model proposes that better psychosocial functioning will take place when a person's temperament is in accord with environmental demands. The studies done to date provide some support for the model. (Author/CI)

Places the current controversy concerning the adequacy of parental ratings of temperament into the larger perspective of personality issues, which have been hotly debated for the past two decades. (Author/MP)

Argues that although Radin and Sagi (1982) and Russell (1982) have generated interesting hypotheses about the origins and effects of increased parental involvement in childrearing, some issues must still be considered if these hypotheses are to be appropriately tested. (Author/MP)

Attempts to account for discrepancies between results of the Hall and Kingsley experiment (1968), (in which the majority of college students did not resist extinction in a contrived instance of non-conservation of weight), and the Miller, Schwartz and Stewart experiment (1973), (in which the majority did resist extinction). (ED)

Research on perceptual and cognitive capacities of the newborn has revealed that state variables typically interfere with or override the neonate's attentional and stimulus processing tendencies. This finding argues for the power of early state variables as behavioral determinants and, further, that neonatal state measures might provide good…

Argues that although Lane and Pearson ("Merrill-Palmer Quarterly," v28, n3, p317-37, 1982) provide an important review, critique, and attempt at integration across paradigms used to study the development of attention, a number of genuine problems still remain to be addressed in this area. (MP)

Comments on Damon and Killen's study, pointing out that the methodological difficulties in examining spontaneous moral discussions have led to the appropriation of a dyadic social-cognitive conflict paradigm that focuses on dialogic interaction. (Author/RH)

Findings indicated that as the proportion of nominators declines, sociometric classifications become less accurate. Of the groups usually compared in studies of children's social adjustment, the average and neglected groups appear least resistant, and the rejected group most resistant, to classification errors due to nominator attrition. (RH)

Discusses the limitations of Youniss's identification of morality with humanism and pluralism (universal developmental endpoints or socially constructed rational ideals), suggesting an alternative approach. (MP)