It was suggested that thought changes cognitions to be more consistent with one's initial attitude direction and, therefore, results in attitude polarization. Specifically, it was predicted that polarization would be highest under thought with reality constraints absent, followed by thought with reality constraints present, followed by…

This study attempted to shed light on the role of items cued to be remembered in the forgetting of items cued to be forgotten. (Author)

Attempts to identify some of the more important concepts which "educated" Papua New Guineans used to describe the relationship between themselves and "uneducated" people. Explores the possible source of the attitudes being investigated. (Author/RK)

Subjects selected on the basis of their drinking histories (alcoholics, heavy drinkers, and social drinkers, N=24) were tested on a series of tasks in order to assess organizational processes in memory. (Editor)

In the context of the well-known fact that the higher stages of Kohlberg's sequence are less well-established than the lower, an exploratory investigation was carried out in a New Zealand teachers' college into the development of principled thinking in young adults and its association with various real-life experiences. (Editor)

Seeks to pin-point an assumption that underlies a great deal of current educational theory. The assumption is that knowledge is an indivisible whole, that distinctions made between different school subjects are thus arbitrary, and that one learning strategy--that of "discovery"--exists, trainable upon any enquiries and universally applicable once…

This research forms part of a long-term program of work on the general relationship between intrapersonal stress and the development of effective cognitive processes. (Author/RK)

Several recent studies have investigated the application of statistical inference procedures to the analysis of differential item functioning (DIF) in test items that are scored on an ordinal scale. Mantel's extension of the Mantel-Haenszel test is a possible hypothesis-testing method for this purpose. The development of descriptive statistics for…

This guide to program evaluation presents questions that illuminate aspects of the evaluation process. Issues to consider in program evaluation are: (1) the intended results of the program; (2) hypotheses about the possible results of the program; (3) the types of data that will indicate achievement of the intended results and the variables that…

Critical analysis of an article that attempts to refute the claims of Sesame Street'' concerning its educational value for children from poverty areas, (Author/MF)

In the course of two experiments, groups of kindergarten, second, fourth, sixth grade and college students received several discrimination problems to investigate hypothesis testing behavior. (Authors/MB)

Glanzer and Clark's verbal loop hypothesis" appeared to be contradicted by these data. (Author)

Results demonstrate that 12 - 15 - week-old male infants smile to nonsocial stimuli, and offers support for the recognition hypothesis of infant smiling. (Authors/MB)

Inter-relationships between subtests of the WISC, intellectual and behavioral impulsivity, were examined separately for boys and girls in an attempt to confirm that impulsivity is differently related to attainment for the two sexes. (Authors)