The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable perception instrument and to use the instrument to identify the significant perceptions of office work held by 10th grade female students enrolled in urban high schools serving disadvantaged youth, and to compare these perceptions with those held by 10th grade female students enrolled…

If the measures used in this study were valid indicators of phenomenal environmental oppressiveness, then it would seem that suicidal adolescents do not see their world as any more overwhelming or overpowering than do others of the same age. (Authors)

Two theories of comparative judgment were compared across four experiments on their ability to explain the Baldwin figure, a focal line whose apparent length is affected by square boxes at or near its endpoints. (Editor)

Tremendous discrepancies between student and parent perceptions of the environment suggest that even though parents may have a reporter on the scene," their perceptions are still not congruent with those of students. (Author)

The study develops and measures a concept of Work-Role Centrality, mainly from a cognitive perspective, and examines by means of questionnaire data its distribution in a representative sample of 778 males participating in the labor force in Israel. (Author)

Focuses on two questions: Does the use of three-dimensional representation in audiovisual instructional materials increase learning of a psychomotor task in which depth perception is critical as compared with two-dimensional representations? Is there a relationship between the impact of three-dimensional representation and the level of complexity…

Discussion of how we perceive meaning from graphics highlights a computer simulation model, UCIE (Understanding Cognitive Information Engineering), that simulates graphical perception. An empirical study is described that compared actual performance to UCIE predictions related to the amount of time required to answer a question in various…

The goal of this study was to interpret patterns of consonance and dissonance between the parenting behaviors that parents report and those that their middle-school children expect them to report. A questionnaire was developed and administered to a sample of middle-school children in grades 6-8 in Felton Laboratory School at South Carolina State…

Data from an urban (Houston, Texas) and a rural (Kansas) sample on the relationship between perceived job satisfaction and career stability of assistant principals are analyzed and compared with the results of earlier findings by Austin and Brown. There is a significant relationship between job satisfaction and career stability, as well as…

Investigates the influence of linguistic structure on non-linguistic cognition by comparing Russian and English behavior on tasks involving the color blue. Russians, who differentiate this region into "dark blue" and "light blue," were expected to separate blues more often than English subjects for whom the colors belong to one lexical category.…

Utilizing responses (a self administered, 15 item questionnaire) of a rural northeastern New England sample of junior high, senior high, and college students, correlation between legal and illegal drug use and perceived self-alienation was examined. Comparison was also made between users and nonusers. Legal users were defined as those who made at…

Describes longitudinal studies conducted at the Drexel Early Childhood Center (Pennsylvania) that used Self-Controlled Interactive Learning Systems to teach reading skills. Standardized test scores for at-risk students are compared with other students; experimental and control groups using standard instruction are compared; and studies of…