The WISC-R, PIAT, and DAM were examined to ascertain relationships among the three instruments. Correlations indicate that information yielded by the PIAT may be obtained through WISC-R results, while the DAM may be tapping other abilities not adequately assessed by either of the other two measures. (Author)

Studies the impact of school television programs on groups of 9- to 11-year-old pupils of above average, average, and below average IQs, with special reference to variance in attitudes of receiving, in responding to, and in valuing the transmissions. (Author)

Investigates the effects of age, competition outcome, and level of aggressiveness during competition as factors related to interpersonal sharing. Subjects were 40 six- to-eleven-year-old boys. (CM)

Happy or sad moods were experimentally induced in elementary-aged children by asking them to reminisce about things that made them happy or sad. Voice affect (with verbal content filtered out) was compared to a baseline neutral condition. (Author/SS)

Examines children's use of spelling as a guide to pronunciation and their ability to handle stress assignment rules. Subjects were 64 seven-year-old elementary school students in Scotland. (MP)

Three experiments examined the effect of different kinds of background features on children's orientation discrimination. A fourth experiment tested the hypothesis that errors in discrimination of obliques can be attributed mainly to confusion over the left-right direction of tilt. Subjects were 160 five-year-old and 20 seven-year-old children.…

Children at three age levels (grades 1, 3 and 5) were tested for recognition memory of adult male faces following three different orienting activities at encoding: standard intentional learning instructions, judging whether or not each face had a big nose, and judging whether each face appeared "nice." (Author/SS)

The relative effectiveness of two types of self-verbalized instruction in controlling deviant behavior was assessed developmentally for 28 first-grade and 20 second-grade boys. (JMB)

The effectiveness of motion parallax for relative and absolute distance judgments was studied using second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children and college students. (JMB)

The Feshbach and Roe test of empathy was administered to 84 children aged 6 and 7 years while they were preparing either to compete or to cooperate with another child on a game. (JMB)

Investigated whether girls' higher scores on self-report measures of anxiety in elementary school is a reflection of sex differences in attitudes toward the admission of anxiety. (JMB)

Techniques of presenting information temporally in the auditory and visual modalities and spatially in the visual modality were used to assess information processing in seven- and nine-year-old children. (JMB)

Investigates differences among children in relative reliance on spelling-sound rules v word-specific associations in reading words. The tendency to rely on rules is correlated with ability to read regular words. Findings indicate that analogies and smaller-unit rules are used in the reading tasks. (JMB)

Tests Piaget's interpretation of long-term memory improvement among 82 five- and six-year-old children. Concludes that there is little evidence for long-term memory improvement or for Piaget's theory of memory. (Author/RH)