Factor scores from Bayley's Infant Behavior Record (obtained from 300 to 400 infants at six, 12, 18, and 24 months) were selected to represent three aspects of infant behavior: task orientation, test affect-extraversion, and activity. Findings indicate reordering of individual differences is age-related and that the reordering sequence is somewhat…

A total of 120 children between four to eight years of age were administered four sets of visual perspective-taking tasks. Results supported the hypothesis that children's task competence would be a fraction of the number and type of spatial relationships embedded in the stimulus displays. (Author/MP)

A total of 72 Nigerian (Igbo) children learned reversal or extradimensional shifts under one of two conditions of locality (urban or rural) and one of three conditions of age (4, 7, or 10 years). Results showed significant main effects for shift, age, and locality and were interpreted as being consistent with the Kendlers' (1962) mediational…

Assessed adults (N=88) on tasks operationally defining short-term memory structural limitations and process abilities. Although a number of minor chronological age-related differences were noted between monaural and dichotic word list performances, the findings indicated both structural capacity and organizational strategy deficiencies over…

A questionnaire survey of 379 state legislators revealed that both sexes are equally inclined to postpone their public office careers until their children are grown. (Author/RM)

Studied age-related differences in the effectiveness of structural and semantic memory cues in 54 adults. Results showed semantic cues improved recall most effectively at all three adult age levels; structural cues produced intermediate levels of recall facilitation. Increases in age and presentation rate did not reduce semantic cue effectiveness.…

Sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders and college students watched or listened to a videotape of four males and four females, each describing someone they liked and someone they disliked (honest messages) and pretending to like the disliked person and to dislike the liked person (dishonest messages). (Author/RH)

To assess the influence of activity on the construction of spatial representations, first- and sixth-graders were assigned to each of three conditions. The child either walked through the environment, performed isolated tasks at four of the environments, or performed interdependent tasks at four of the locations. (Author/MP)

Investigates the development of lateralization of cerebral function for touch and assesses whether deaf children's lateralization pattern for this sensory system shows any deviations from that of normal children. Three groups of right-handed subjects voluntarily participated in a unimodal haptic matching task: hearing adults, hearing children, and…

Mothers' interactions with both younger and older hyperactive children were compared and contrasted with those observed in comparable age groups of normal children. Interactions were observed in unstructured play and structured task situations. (Author/RH)

Erikson discusses the experience of growing old and how it is changing. He reflects on the life cycle and his theory of human development, and on Gandhi's technique of nonviolence and its relationship to generativity. (SK)

The increase in the numbers of the elderly in many countries has created the need to investigate the reasons for "the aging of the nations." Current studies in the Caucasus region are seeking to identify the origins of longevity and the problems of the aging of the population. (UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, 75700 Paris) (SSH)

Supports the hypothesis that temperamentally fussier 5- to 9-month-old infants are more fearful and less friendly toward strangers than are more easygoing infants of the same age. (MP)

Argues that although Feitelson, Tehori, and Levinberg-Green raise important questions about early education in general and early reading instruction in particular, one major question remains to be answered: What sort of programs should group settings for young children provide? (MP)

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)