This study investigated the perceived harmonic relationships between the chords that belong to three closely related musical keys. Many aspects of the results have direct correlates in music theory and may help to uncover basic psychological principles that govern the organization of pitch relationships underlying both musical composition and…

Activities to help children develop the concept of right-left awareness are presented. Activities touch on lateral awareness (distinguishing between their right and left sides and labeling them) and directionality (using the language of left and right according to someone else's orientation). (CL)

The authors discuss the composition of local special education advisory committees and the dynamics that affect their performance. (SB)

Forty child study teams were observed and verbal behaviors of classroom teachers in those teams were analyzed. Teachers in an experimental program stressing role clarification spoke significantly more than any other participants. Parents were most frequently addressed by other team members. (CL)

Children 6- to 7- and 9- to 10-years-old listened to pairs of words presented dichotically to the left and right ear either simultaneously or in immediate succession. Results indicated that pragmatic, serial relations dominate younger children's semantic organization, whereas logical, hierarchical relations dominate older children's semantic…

The development of concepts of both the mind and brain is examined in subjects from preschool age through adulthood. While young children begin with undifferentiated conceptions of the mind and brain, in subsequent developments these concepts are differentiated along ontological and functional lines. (Author/RH)

Three studies compared effects of different rhythmic contexts on order judgments of targets embedded in auditory patterns designed to manifest auditory stream segregation. The magnitude of the captor effect varied with temporal predictability of flanking and/or target tones. A pairwise rhythm was likely to improve judgments by facilitating…

Two studies are reported in which the relationship between sound blending and auditory closure and reading performance (word analysis skills, oral reading, and silent reading) was explored in learning disabled youngsters (6 to 11 years old). (Author)

This paper presents a scoring procedure for sex-role orientation reflecting how similar an individual is to androgynous, undifferentiated, masculine, and feminine sex-role types. The profile scores are reasonably reliable, consistent with a widely used typological scoring procedure, and permit finer comparisons between individuals with different…

Twenty-one normally developing 3-year-old children were tested on two approximate consonant contrasts, "rake-lake" and "wake-rake," and a control contrast, "wake-bake." The children showed very accurate perceptions of minimal pairs. Children who did not yet articulate "r" or "l" appropriately showed somewhat less consistent perception than…

Reality monitoring concerns the ability to distinguish knowledge that an individual has produced internally (through reasoning, imagination, etc.) from knowledge that was obtained through experience (or "externally"). A model of reality monitoring is proposed and discussed. (JKS)

Results showed that the overall performance of the conductive loss group on the test battery was significantly lower than that of the normal control group. Performance of the experimental group was also significantly lower in specific auditory perceptual areas. (Author)

Investigated children's understanding of facial expressions such as anger, sadness, and disgust. Further study explored children's capacity to associate components of emotional expressions with the emotions to which they are related. (Author/RH)

Results showed that the two-chair dialog applied at a split produced more depth of experiencing than did focusing plus emphatic reflection. Both treatments produced significantly greater reported shifts in awareness and progress than the no-treatment controls. (Author)

The relationship between children's concepts of life and their judgments and revisions of sentences with violations of animacy restrictions was examined. (Author/MP)