Clarifies issues involved in use of heart rate as index of newborn attentional responsivity by reviewing related studies and concluding that heart rate variability can be used in studying attentional responsivity state, and intra-individual and individual variables. (ED)

Determines whether parents in normal families can predict their children's perceptions of family relations as measured by the Family Relations Tests. (Author/DEP)

In two experiments, judges evaluated fictitious protocols that varied in the number and uniqueness of the answers. Criteria for judgments were creativity, intelligence and gender. (Author/DEP)

The effects of task-focused and approval-focused desists were investigated under conditions of limited information. Eighth grade students heard one of two tape-recorded desists. They then rated the target of the desists and the teacher who gave it on personality trait and degree of confidence scales. (Author/DEP)

Study reported in a paper read at the Eastern Psychological Association meeting (Boston, April 1967).

Based on a PhD thesis submitted to the University of Iowa, 1967.

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To investigate the relationship of differences in 2-year-old children's reactions to strangers to differences in their temperaments and their security of attachment with their mothers, a correlational study was conducted with 47 infants and their parents. In the first component of the study, both parents completed a child temperament rating…

Forty-four second grade students participated in a study examining the relationships between field dependence/independence (FDI), grammatical awareness, reading ability, and training in grammatical awareness. After the children were pretested for their levels of cognitive development, degree of field independence, grammatical awareness, and…

This paper argues that the most important role the intelligent videodisc can fulfill is to provide a mechanism for effectively integrating testing and instruction. This integration will produce at least four important benefits: (1) increased learning by the student, (2) more interesting instructional materials, (3) gains in the efficiency of…

In a visual recognition masking experiment, a target stimulus to be identified is either preceded or followed by a second stimulus called a masking stimulus. The experiments described here provide estimates of both developmental and aging differences in visual backward masking under conditions which maximize interference in the central visual…

This paper reviews 35 studies important in the historical development of field dependence, a popular research topic in psychology. The first section involves antecedents of the concept of field dependence, such as the influence of Kurt Lewin. Part two deals with the development of field dependence as an individual differences variable. Part three…