A timely and relevant prototype model is presented to illustrate how social indicators might be statistically combined into an overall Index of Social Health" for the United States. (DM)

Explores aspects of four school referenda in Albuquerque in 1968 and 1969. Data suggest that income did not significantly correlate with elections utilizing the property tax as a funding base, but did so with voting behavior in an election with income tax as a funding base. (RJ)

Article concentrates on historians who are becoming proficient in utilizing computer technology for research purposes. (RK)

Results of these five experiments span serial pattern learning, perception of sequential patterns, and coordinated motor skill. (Authors/CB)

It was concluded that pictures are encoded differently depending on task expectation. Parallel access of visual and semantic memory codes occurs; but when recognition is expected, a visual cue provides faster access, and when expecting recall, verbal access is more efficient. (Author)

Results indicate that Ss have a strong tendency to imitate a model, whether or not the model is reinforced or is successfully learning the task. (Author)

Paper identifies the components of graduate students role stress and discusses them with reference to current theories in behavioral science and social psychology. (Author)

While father absence due to divorce, desertion, or separation had the most negative influence in the initial 2 years of the child's life for boys and girls, father absence due to death was the most detrimental when it occurred in the 6 - 9 period of the boy's life. (Author)

In research with children, there is a common problem which could reduce the reliability of a questionnaire for some children but not others: verbal comprehension. (Authors)

Data provide evidence for the situational invariance of individual differences, and for the greater importance of capacity than of motivational variables in accounting for such differences. (Authors)

Purpose of this study was to test the adequacy of the serial habituation hypothesis as an account of the infant's perceptual commerce with visual stimuli. (Author)

Study involved the development of a carefully sequenced, two-year program in dramatics and public speaking for kindergarten and first-grade children and an investigation of the effects of the program on children's acting and speaking. (Authors)

Results indicate that the auditory stimulation in no way affected task performance. Author argues that great amounts of money should not be spent by either schools or parents in order to eliminate moderate amounts of noise from a child's academic environment. (Author/CB)

Major finding of the study was that white children judged that ability and effort were relatively more important for their performance than task difficulty and luck, while the reverse was true for blacks. (Authors)

Younger men are both less engaged from the world and more efficient processors of information than older (especially less educated) ones. (Authors)