This study was concerned with the effect of situational frequency manipulations on subsequent discrimination learning. The subjects were 104 fourth-grade children attending two elementary schools located in middle-class residential areas. Twenty-six subjects were randomly assigned to each of two picture conditions. The other 52 subjects were…

A new form of the Purdue Elementary Problem Solving Inventory which presents real-life problem situations as three-dimensional models is described and developmental data is presented. Second and fourth graders in an advantaged and a disadvantaged school were given either the model version or the original slide version of the Inventory. The model…

Examines 9- to 11-year-old dyslexic children's object naming problems and concludes that they are subject to verbal naming difficulties which cannot be accounted for by generally low levels of vocabulary knowledge. Attributes these difficulties to lexical-phonological representation of spoken words they know. (RS)

Hearing and hearing-impaired children between ages 4.5 to 15.5 years in England and Belgium were invited to abstract the concept of emotion from photographs and line drawings of facial expressions and body postures. A further experiment isloated the element of context in the task of decoding expression of emotion, resulting in comparatively…

Compares estimates of monocular visual resolution of children 6- to 36-months of age with three psychophysical procedures: the Probabilistic Estimation by Sequential Testing (PEST), a modification of the PEST procedure, and the method-of-constant stimuli. (HOD)

Use of strategies to eliminate interference from irrelevant information in memory was investigated for 11-, 15-, and 18-year-olds. A directed forgetting paradigm was introduced. Results suggest that 11-year-olds use adequate selective remembering strategy, but not selective rehearsal: most 15- and 18-year-olds did. (Author/DST)

Performance was consistently higher for pictures than for words, and this difference was unaffected by age, response mode, or presentation paradigm. (Author)

Author developed an instrument, called the Perceptual Index, which was designed to provide teachers of art with a valid and reliable measure of response to visual stimuli. (Author/MB)

The article concludes that a satisfactory program of vision screening requires a careful choice of testing procedures and referral policies, but it also requires decisions based on the philosophies of treatment of local practitioners and an understanding by parents of the purposes and methods of the program. (Author)

The data indicate a negative relationship between illusion susceptibility and education. This supports the sophistication hypothesis suggested by Segall, Campbell, and Herskovits. (DB)

Critique of a recent study of children's reading preferences--reported by Robin C. Ford and Janos Koplyay in "Children's Story Preferences,""Reading Teacher," vol. 22 (December 1968), 233-37--which utilized 60 pictures and descriptive sentences. (RD)

In two experiments, a probe technique required subjects to respond when the digit 7 appeared in one of five-letter positions in words or nonwords, inserted at the onset and 500 msec after letter and word processing. The focus of attention given to a letter has a smaller spatial extent. (Author/CM)

The Audio Visual Inventory of Interpersonal Competence (AIIC) is designed to measure elementary-aged children's interpersonal competence. Two studies were conducted, with the first to develop the AIIC and the second to establish AIIC reliability, based on 641 elementary-aged children's responses. Results suggest that the AIIC is a reliable…