In this magnum opus he used biological metaphors to analyse the functioning of a national economic system and elaborate a detailed typology of socio-economic phenomena.
Recall and recognition measures revealed no differences between maltreated and nonmaltreated children's semantic memory functioning for neutral stimuli.
It seems unlikely that serious problems in parental functioning during childhood would suddenly be resolved as the child enters adolescence.
Since the study involved retrospective thought, the respondents were required to have adequate cognitive capacity for daily social functioning.
Approximately half had a functioning transplant, with the remainder receiving dialysis therapy.
Participants evaluated the programme positively, although they did not consider that their memory functioning had improved as a result.
Clearly, research efforts need to be directed towards assessing the development of more specific aspects of cognitive functioning, such as executive functions.
It is difficult to know whether maltreatment causes problems in family functioning or vice versa.
