Nineteen older women gave their perceptions of great-grandmotherhood. They modeled their behavior on their earlier role of grandmother, but age and lack of geographic proximity restricted their ability to carry it out in the same way. Great-grandmotherhood was significant for symbolic and emotional rather than social and instrumental reasons.…

Two studies of the exploratory behavior of preschool children and first grade students which used Hutt's novel object are reported. Results confirmed the assumption of a typical sequence of exploratory behavior and play. In contrast to a strong sequential hypothesis, subjects shifted between neighboring categories of exploratory behavior and…

After showing that Goethe's declarations and admonishments concerning the scope and methods of science often foreshadowed later developments, the author reconsiders Goethe's own scientific efforts. Goethe continually strove to fully integrate human experience into all levels of scientific inquiry and discovery. (JMK)

The author cautions that far from being an educational panacea, computers may actually be frustrating or even harmful for children with visual problems, including difficulties with visual-tactual development, visual attention span, and nearsightedness. A coordinated program implemented by education and clinicians is advocated. (CL)

Suggests reassessing the value of being well-rounded and adopting a surrendered lifestyle as a way of achieving higher levels of self-direction. Presents examples of successful people who have surrendered themselves to their roles in life, empowered by being able to invest themselves in being somebody. (JAC)

Examined recognition memory for photographs of faces in four experiments using students and adults. Results supported a feature (rather than Gestalt) model of facial recognition in which the two sides of the face are different in its memory representation. (JAC)

Shows that the perceived shade of gray depends on the luminance relationship between surfaces perceived to be in the same plane and not between surfaces that are merely adjacent in the retinal image. This implies that lateral inhibition cannot explain lightness constancy. (MLH)

This paper explores the development of the "ecological human brain" in children, children's intellectual culture of "naturalist intelligence," and developmentally and culturally congruent curricula for young children. In early cognitive development, nature-given perception conducts thought. In contrast, for adults, intellectual…

The Mozart effect involves the enhancement of spatial processing after listening to a Mozart piano sonata (Rauscher, Dhaw, and Ky, 1993). Efforts to replicate the Mozart effect have been mixed, possibly due to differences in dependent variable operationalization across studies or large individual differences in magnitude of effect. Chabria and…

This study tried to determine if the student teaching experience significantly altered the students' perception of teaching and which of the performance criteria variables on the Secondary Supervised Teaching Evaluation Form accounted for the greatest variance of the students' perceptions of teaching. (Author/JA)

Analyzed parataxic distortion (low self esteem and attribution of low self-acceptance to the average person), by looking for key qualities of parenting associated with this type of distorted perception. (DP)

Elementary school children and adults gave preference responses to all paired comparisons of red, blue, and green Munsell paper squares. Frequency of intransitive response patterns decreased with age. (ST)

Kindergarten children were tested on Kershner's spatial model, two WISC performance tests, and two Piagetian tasks. Results validated Kershner's work but not his claims that his test measures conservation or dimensional concepts. (ST)

Lists twelve ideas intended to increase the novice writer's perceptions of his surroundings. (RB)