The article identifies several areas where gifted students exhibit variability. Discussed are differences relating to performance vs. potential, variations in competencies, creative ability, the highly gifted, and behavioral dysfunctions. A number of generalizations are offered, including that multiple options in programing must be sought. (SW)

Instances of thinking by 113 students over five-year period were scored with respect to four form aspects and seven content categories providing answers to three questions: (1) What does the average person think about and how does s/he think about it? (2) Are there identifiable categories of thinkers or identifiable thought patterns? (3) Are there…

Examines reactions to menarche and the subsequent effects of this experience as a function of preparation for and timing of menarche. A questionnaire including measures of responses about first menstruation, current symptoms, and self-image was completed by 639 girls in fifth through twelfth grades. (Author/MP)

Curriculum must be adapted to match the ability and developmental stages of the academically gifted. The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth at Johns Hopkins University determined that curriculum flexibility, not change, is the best approach. (JOW)

Focuses on consumers' knowledge and opinions concerning the funeral industry. Questionnaires showed university faculty and staff (N=293) rejected the status quo. Almost 9 out of 10 of the respondents were quite unprepared for their own funerals. Relationships existed between knowledge scores and the age, education, and sex of respondents.…

Investigated digit repetition performance in learning-disabled children in an effort to assess its clinical and theoretical significance. Clincally, learning-disabled children (N=100) had a higher than expected incidence of large verbal-performance discrepancies, although mean overall digit repetition performance did not differ appreciably from…

Measured the internal consistency reliability of the Holmes Am Scale in discriminating alcoholics (N=39) from college students (N=77). Results showed the Holmes Am Scale displayed low internal consistency reliability but did not discriminate significantly between the two groups. The Am Scale was related moderately to alcohol use among students…

The Profile of Mood States lists emotional categories. It was studied for actual interrelationships among its categories. An examination of intraindividual relationships showed that emotion categories are systematically interrelated and can be accounted for by three bipolar dimensions: pleasure-displeasure, arousal-sleepiness, and…

Discusses an alternative approach to intelligence tests as a measure of intelligence. The approach is based on three classes of performance dealing with a person's choice of an internal representation for a problem, strategies for manipulating the representation, and abilities to execute elementary information processing steps required by the…

T.W. Elig and I.H. Frieze used a multitrait, multimethod approach to contrast three methods for measuring attributions: unstructured/open-ended, structured/unidimensional, and structured/ipsative. This paper reanalyzed their data using confirmatory factor analysis techniques. (Author/PN)

Measures of latency and accuracy and self-ratings of performance on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT) were found to significantly differentiate between college students self-rated as high- and low-success problem solvers. Results suggest a need for training low-success, impulsive problem solvers in more effective problem-solving…

Provides information about learning disabilities for the developmental educator. Discusses the multidisciplinary nature of its definition, the middle-class orientation of the movement, and the instructional methods and programs available for adolescents. Encourages the development of postsecondary programs geared to individual student needs. (CAM)

A review of all available experimental data indicates that the task-evoked pupillary response, a physiological measure of processing "mental effort," accurately reflects within-task, between-task and between-individual variations in processing demands. (Author/RH)

Married couples competed on a test of mental flexibility. Husbands and wives were randomly determined as winners and losers in competition. Spouses reacted as strongly to competition with each other as they did to competition with a stranger. Females were more affected by competitive outcome, particularly intramarital competition. (Author)