Chandra K. SinghPoonam2016-11-172016-11-172009http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/86113The present study was conducted in urban rural area in Hisar city of Haryana with the aim to assess the cognitive competence of pre-schoolers and the intellectual abilities of their mothers and to find out the influence of maternal intelligence, socio-economic status and home environment on the cognitive competence of the pre-schoolers. Experimental material comprised 240 respondents from that the 120 were their mothers and 120 were the pre-schoolers selected from both rural (60) and urban (6) during the age of 2-3 years. From rural area anganwadis and homes of two villages namely Singhran and Harita were visited and from urban area preschools and homes were selected in Hisar city. The simple comprised of 30 boys and 30 girls in the age group of 2-3 years from both the location. Results regarding profiles of children indicated that majority of the children’s parents had education up to senior secondary level in rural areas and upto graduation level in urban areas. With regard to occupation majority of children belonged to agricultural background in rural areas and service in urban areas whereas in case of family time in rural area the most of children belonged to the medium size of family and in urban they belonged to small size family. Majority of children belonged to nuclear family in both the areas. Children from urban areas surpassed children from rural areas in cognitive competence on Bayley scale. The cognitive competence of children was significantly correlated with the maternal intelligence in urban area. Regarding associations the cognitive competence of children was not influenced by the socio-economic status in both the location. Some aspects of home environment such as learning and language stimulation, acceptance and the total home environment were significantly associated with intellectual abilities of urban children whereas only two aspects namely learning and physical stimulation were significantly associated with intellectual abilities of rural children.enInsecticides, Peaches, Oils, Pesticides, Fruits, Biological interaction, Diseases, Biological phenomena, Yields, Plant extractsThesis