A total of 42 middle-income kindergarten and sixth-grade children were exposed to a person modeling generosity, selfishness, or neither characteristic. As expected, younger children patterned their behaviors more on the model's example than did older children. (MP)

Provides a literature-based overview of continuing education for older adults. Addresses the context of older adult education, age and cohort differences in participation, scope of programming, implications of psychological theory and research, and recommendations for enhancing participation and learning. (SK)

Skin temperature biofeedback performance was studied in 38 6- to 10-year-old children and 38 of their parents across two sessions of audio biofeedback segments in which participants alternately attempted hand-warming and hand-cooling. Children were superior to adults in controlling skin temperature in the presence of biofeedback. (Author/DB)

Results are reported from a study of the relationships between age and teacher interest in continuing professional education. It is concluded that age-related alternatives in continuing education programs should be made available to teachers. (Author/GK)

Examined the frequency with which imitation as well as other behaviors such as touching and vocalizing served as initiators of preschool children's peer interactions. The degree to which these behaviors contributed to sustained peer interactions was also examined. (Author/MP)

Adults and eight and nine-year-old children were given coincidence-anticipation trials to test their motor reactions and anticipation of motor events. Differences in the order of the trials may have contributed to the differences across age groups. (CJ)

Explores the problem of recidivism among children discharged from foster care by the Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA). Results presented from this first stage of the study focus on the relationship of child and family attributes to recidivism. (Author/RH)

The reported problems of today's Australian adolescent are identified and described, and the effects of age and sex on these problems are assessed. Relationships between peer acceptance and sex role identity are investigated; whether changes in sex role identity occur during adolescence is discussed. (Author/GK)

Third- and fifth-grade children's abilities to make inferences in the context of reading and understanding a lengthy story were examined. The most critical result was that the younger, but not the older children, made fewer inferences when the component premises for an inference were located in separate paragraphs than when they occurred in the…

Studied the development of the concepts of energy conservation and entropy in 5- to 15-year-old children. Energy conservation was not well understood until about age 15. Entropy was understood by 9- to 15-year-olds when the concept was illustrated by the gradual mixing of differently colored, rolling marbles. (Author/DB)

Children between ages 9 and 13 were tested for recognizing and remembering words from 6- and 12-word lists. Developmental functions showed different growth patterns for remembering the items in a short list than for remembering order, and different patterns for storing items from a long list, than for retrieving them. (Author)

The effects of age, modeling, tuition, and sanctions on self-control of motor behavior were examined among children 6, 7, 9, and 11 years of age. Among the results, activation latency and inhibition error were influenced most by the actions of the model and the introduction of a negative sanction, and less by tuition. (Author/RH)

One- and two-month-old infants were shown schematic drawings of a human face with features arranged (1) naturally, (2) symmetrically but scrambled, and (3) asymmetrically and scrambled. Two-month-olds discriminated among all arangements and preferred the natural arrangement; one-month-olds showed no discrimination or preference. (Author/DB)

The visual short-term cued recall memory of 8-, 12-, and 16-month-olds was assessed in two experiments using an operant indirect delayed-reaction procedure. In each experiment, 12- and 16-month olds performed better than chance, whereas 8-month-old infants did not. (Author/DB)