Social Class, Intelligence, and Cognitive Style in Infancy

Relation of Infants' Performance on Piaget Scales between Twelve and Twenty-Four Months and Their Stanford-Binet Performance at Thirty-One Months

“…Taken as a whole, these data and those of the present paper suggest the relevance of the development of object permanence to both Piagetian (Uzgiris 1973) and non-Piagetian (Golden & Birns 1971;King & Seegmiller 1973) conceptualizations of early cognitiveintellectual growth. The data in the present paper as well as those of King and Seegmiller (1973) suggest that other early Piagetian abilities such as the development of schemata and causality may also be worthy of more study than they have hitherto received.…”

“…Most current research utilizing Piagetbased infant scales has dealt either with tracing patterns of development or interrelationships among the various early Piagetian abilities (Uzgiris 1967(Uzgiris , 1973 or with relating infants' performance levels on Piagetian scales to demographic variables (Golden & Birns 1968, gross rearing conditions (Hunt 1973;Paraskevopoulos & Hunt 1971), or proximal measurements of the child's home environment (Wachs 1973b;Wachs, Uzgiris, & Hunt 1971). In contrast, there seems to be little interest in relating infants' performance on Piaget-based scales to their performance on other cognitiveintellectual measures.…”

Social-Class Differentiation in Cognitive Development among Black Preschool Children

“…Operating on this assumption, we included in the original cross-sectional study (Golden & Birns 1968) the Object Scale, a new measure of cognitive development based on Piaget. The Object Scale seemed more related to cognitive development, and therefore we had expected to find social-class differences.…”

Early environment and cognitive competence: The Little Rock study

“…Correlations between HOME and IQ tended to be more independent of social status for blacks than whites. As Golden and Birns (1968) observed, there is wide variability in parenting practices within social class for black families. An interesting hypothesis relative to this observation is: parenting practices and class status within a culture tend to converge over time.…”