This paper reports an investigation of the effectiveness of vision screening by the Modified Telebinocular Technique (MTT) when compared to the more cumbersome but highly valid and reliable Modified Clinical Technique (MCT). Data on 102 school children were collected using the MCT. The same children were then given the MTT to establish comparison…

Videotapes were made of the prehensile activity and looking behavior of 2- and 5-month-old infants in the presence of objects placed within and beyond possible contact distance. (BRT)

Involved a comparison between therapists with high client attrition rates versus therapists with low attrition rates on selected demographic and client-perceived initial-session therapy-process variables. A number of the therapy process variables significantly differentiated the two groups. (Author)

Discusses the cultural meaning of color terms in both Chinese and English. For example, in English, "yellow" connotes "cowardice," while in Chinese it connotes "pornography." Emphasizes the importance of the culturally-determined differences regarding color meaning associations, but recognizes that such perceptions occur within a common…

Three types of vocational education students were surveyed to determine their perceptions of outcomes of their education. Identified outcome clusters included occupational employment skills, employment seeking skills, basic skills for employment, attitude toward employment, and standards for job performance. Emphasis differences among the three…

Based on an analysis of the sex of the first drawn figure as the product of sexual identificatory ties and cultural attitudes toward the sexes, the hypothesis was confirmed that the more positive contemporary values assigned to the female role occur in a greater percentage of girls now than previously. (Author/KM)

Using data on 682 couples from a national probability sample, demonstrated that a wife's perception of her husband's attitude toward her employment is moderately inconsistent with the husband's actual attitude. Found several couple characteristics significantly affect the level of inconsistency, indicating degree of couple communication. (Author)

Developmental color perception of 278 four- and eight-year-old Black and White children in three societies was examined in relation to the theories that proximity to the equator and that fundus pigmentation (as measured by skin color) reduce shortwave (blue-green) in comparison to long-wave perception. (Author/MP)

Adults' conceptions of children's abilities were examined as a function of three factors: the nature of the subject group, the particular ability in question, and the particular questions asked about the ability. Subjects were 60 adults equally divided among four groups: female parents, female nonparents, male parents, and male nonparents. (MP)

Results suggest that thinking about the future and about the impact of the past and present on the future seems to be more common to college students than to people not in college. (Author)

Discusses research which compared the performance of children with reading disabilities to the performance of normal readers, matched for age and reading level, in a backward-masking letter-identification and localization task. (JM)

The study examined the roles of parents and schools as sources of occupational information. Students' perceptions of the responsibility for, and the accuracy and adequacy of, occupational information was found to be related to the student's grade level. Both parents and students felt that the responsibility for providing occupational information…

Compared tendencies of adults and rhesus monkeys to escape adaptively when uncertain. In a visual discrimination task using a threshold paradigm, humans and monkeys escaped trials in which they were uncertain of the stimulus. In a similar task with constant stimuli, some humans escaped adaptively, but one escaped infrequently and non-optimally,…

Visual persistence was investigated in adults with and without dyslexia in order to determine whether dyslexic adults demonstrate problems similar to those found in childhood dyslexia. Results showed that sensitivity of dyslexic adults was impaired when parts of a test stimulus were presented to adjacent retinal areas, suggesting that under…

Investigates the psychological representation of visual-gestural languages from a cross-linguistic perspective. The perception of signers of American and Chinese Sign Languages is analyzed. (27 references) (Author/VWL)