THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (1991,Vol.2)

No.1　　September, 1991

Articles
SUGIMURA, Takeshi:
Effects of conceptual and labeling levels on children's categorization.............. 1

YUZAWA, Masamichi ; KARIYAZONO, Akihiko & MAEHARA, Izumi:
Generality of knowledge transferred to an everyday analogical task by preschool and elementary school children.............. 9

OGURA, Tamiko ; NOTARI, Angela & FEWELL, Rebecca:
The relationship between language and play in Down syndrome children............. 17

MURAKAMI, Shiho:
Representation forming in Kusyo behaviour............. 25

ENDOH, Tsukasa:
A case study of a profoundly retarded child : Head Raising and posture maintaining............. 32

Letters to the Editor ............. 41
MATSUDA, Kohei / USUI, Hiroshi / SATO, Tatsuya / MINAMI, Hirohumi / MINAMI, Tetsuhiro / KAWASAKI, Michio / NAKAZAWA, Kazuko / SHIMONAKA, Yoshiko

Information ............. 55

No.2　　December, 1991

Articles
GUO, Hsiaolan:
Chinese mother's beliefs about preschool children : The relationship between mother's beliefs about teaching strategies, mother's behaviors, and children's representational thinking............. 60

ITO, Minako:
Construction of self_acceptance scale and it's
DEVELOPMENTAL changes in adolescence : The
DEVELOPMENTAL process of self_acceptance from the viewpointof two demensions............. 71

OKAMOTO, Masahiko:
Influence of metacognitive knowledge and aptitude in solving word problems in arithmetic............. 78

AKITA, Kiyomi ; SATO, Manabu & IWAKAWA, Naoki:
The growth of teachers' practical knowledge of instruction : Comparison between experts and novices............. 88

TSUCHIDA, Noriaki:
Cognitive rigidity in normally healthy elderly adults : From the viewpoint self_regulation............. 99

IWATATE, Shizuo ; KOJIMA, Tetsuya ; HAYASHI, Koji & MATUMOTO, Yukiko:
Language acquisition with a graphic symbol System by a retarded child : Word order, color cueing for grammatical categories, and generalization.............. 106

Letters to the Editor ............. 116

Information ............. 121

Publication manual ............. 128