Used a reaction time paradigm to examine the behavior of young children and adults in a picture-identification task where the pictures presented were from both the child's and the adult's point of view (e.g., the underside of a table as well as the eating surface). (JMB)

A national sample of practicing school psychologists responded to a questionnaire measuring certain demographic characteristics and their perceptions of their training, practice, preferred job, and competence. Differences are examined for job setting (urban-rural), degree field (school psychology-other), and degree level (doctoral-subdoctoral). (…

The Education for All Handicapped Children (P. L. 94-142) is briefly reviewed, and the role of the pediatrician in identifying and delivering services to handicapped children, and in affecting public policy formation is discussed. Arthur Retlaw and Associates, Inc., Suite 2080, 1603 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201. (CL)

Physical educators must expand the concept of physical education if it is to be successful as an academic discipline and teach their students to use knowledge of human movement to solve expanding problems in nonteaching fields. (MJB)

Thurstone's landmark papers on psychophysics, published in the twenties, are discussed in this presidential address to the Psychometric Society. The development of psychophysics from Thurstone to the present is presented in some detail. (JKS)

Examined the reaction of others to the behavior of depressed persons. More specifically, it was hypothesized that depressed persons induce depression and hostility in others, and consequently are rejected socially. (Author/RK)

Both volunteer and nonvolunteer subjects were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In the choice condition, subjects were led to believe that they had a choice, and in the second condition subjects were denied the choice of treatment. Volunteer subjects who were given a choice significantly valued the treatment more. (Author)

Notes several factors which affect the readability of a printed message and contends that current typographical devices and styles are contrary to the fundamentals of eye physiology and detrimental to established reading habits. Available from: The Journal of Biocommunication, D. Raney, 3215 Haddon Road, Durham, NC 27705. (MH)

Discusses the relation between discrimination and identification performance, particularly with regard to experiments with speech and other signals used to draw a distinction between continuous and categorical perception. Offers three main arguments. (Author/RK)

Studied the utility of cardiac habituation/response recovery as a measure for assessing infant cerebral asymmetries in auditory perception on a dichotic listening test. (Author/SB)

A brief training procedure designed to improve elementary school children's performance on the Children's Embedded Figures Test resulted in significant improvement for girls but not for boys. (Author/JMB)

Described is an alternative theoretical perspective to more traditional views dealing with the environment. The concept of "wilderness" is introduced as a subject for application within this theoretical alternative. (Editors/BT)

This article points out that the methodology of educational evaluation has been dominated by scientific assumptions and, then, argues that two concepts--connoisseurship and criticism--yield procedures that could provide a complement to the scientific approaches. (MM)

A procedure is described for minimizing perspective error when calculating a scaling factor for any subject at any perpendicular distance from a camera, provided the subject touches the ground, and represents one way in which perspective error can be used to provide valuable information. (MJB)