Relationships between cognitive complexity as defined by the ITI [Interpersonal Topical Inventory (Tuckman, 1966) and the CST [Conceptual Systems Test (Harvey, 1967)] and a number of other information processing variables were examined using 107 grade eleven students. (Editor)

AN EXPERIMENTAL SITUATION WAS DEVELOPED IN WHICH THE SUBJECT HAD THE TASK OF DETERMINING WHICH OF A SET OF POSSIBLE EVENTS HAD OCCURRED ON EACH TRIAL. THIS WAS DONE BY ASKING THE EXPERIMENTER QUESTIONS WHICH COULD BE ANSWERED "YES" OR "NO" UNTIL THE EVENT WAS NAMED. FOUR EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN WHICH STRATEGIES WERE…

The intriguing possibility has emerged that the mechanisms processing information concerning different attributes might arrive at incompatible conclusions, so that stimuli are perceived which have paradoxical properties. This study demonstrated just such a situation. (Author/RK)

Mixed lists of digit pairs and consonant pairs were presented under Sternberg's scanning paradigm. The results indicated that the subjects partitioned this material into discriminable subsets but apparently only used that structure to reduce response latency when the test probes were negative. Probe familiarity is discussed as a basis for this…

Forty-eight high and forty-eight low dogmatic subjects received neutral information about fictitious countries from sources who were positive, unbiased (neutral) or negative toward the country. It was concluded that closed-minded people react to surface indicators of validity whereas open-minded people use the characteristics of a description to…

Provides an information processing model as a useful theoretical approach for nutrition education research. (CS)

Verbal memory was investigated using two miniature artificial languages that were identical except for the design of their reference system. One reference field was illustrated as a set of continuous elements, the other as a holistic unit. (Editor)

Proposals for the use of the computer in the humanities often ask more of the machine than it can reasonably yield, and the enthusiastic generation of data for dictionary projects may well overburden the editors who must eventually cope with it. Procedures in lexicography are not well enough defined for a substantial burden to be placed on the…

In three experiments the location of pigeons was monitored during 20-second illuminations of a right or left key presented in various temporal relationships with food delivery. In general, subjects approached a signal positively correlated with food and withdrew from a signal negatively correlated with food. (Editor)

Subjects responded to pairs of test items from learned linear orderings (e.g., Tom is taller than Dick; Dick is taller than Sam, etc.). Results are compared with previous studies of ordered linguistic, perceptual, and numerical information. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to determine whether intentional forgetting instructions influence memory when the opportunity for rehearsal is restricted and whether the intentional forgetting phenomenon could be accounted for by a selective-search hypothesis which states that memory improvement is due to a smaller search set in the cued condition relative to the…

Separation thresholds for groups of 26 dyslexic and normal children attending the first year of secondary school were obtained with pairs of identically-oriented and spatially-overlapping straight lines presented at orientations varying from zero to 90 degrees. (Editor)

It is much easier to look for an unfamiliar character (such as an upside down A) embedded among familiar ones than to look for a familiar character (A) among unfamiliar ones. Furthermore, the nature of the background seems more important toperformance than the nature of the target. (Editor)

The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of amount of information and number of judgments required of subjects upon information order effects in recruitment interview decisions. (Author)

The operation of a covert information processing mechanism was investigated in two experiments of the self-persuasion phenomena; i. e., making an inference about a stimulus on the basis of one's past behavior. (Editor)