The author discusses applying J. Piaget's philosophy to the treatment of learning-related visual problems by first probing for the available knowledge in the person's ocular sensorimotor intelligence, visual thinking, and logical reasons. Then, through tasks, the individual is encouraged to engage in high-level thinking in the undeveloped areas.…

Language is not, as commonly believed, a biologically arbitrary assemblage of processes that are not themselves linguistic. Rather, language consists of specialized processes of phonetic perception that conform to the acoustic consequences of the way that articulatory movements are regulated. (Author/GC)

Explored personality correlates of pain perception and tolerance in a nonmedical sample and setting. Results showed no significant correlations with personality measures and cold-pressor scores, but a significant relationship between pain tolerance and cognitive focus; those who focused on the experimental situation had much shorter tolerance…

Maintains that managers of libraries operated by for-profit organizations must seek to cultivate the perception and appearance that cost-benefit to the sponsor exists, even if unsupportable in an accounting sense. (Author/JD)

A school can be an educational opportunity for mentally retarded citizens only if its teachers and learners can decide together on such things as the purposes toward which activities are directed, the means of reaching them, and the subject matter to be used in stimulating thinking. (Author/NQ)

Past subscribers to this journal were surveyed to examine articles' perceived utility, strengths, and weaknesses. Subscribers often worked in universities and were involved in research in counseling psychology. Strengths included research design/methodology, relevance to practice, writing quality, and scholarly rigor. Weaknesses included esoteric…

Evaluated effects of perceived freedom of choice on behavior change. Subjects were assigned to groups that varied in amount of perceived choice in determining training procedures. Subjects who perceived that they were given choice in training procedures improved significantly more than subjects who lost freedom of choice. (Author/BEF)

Explores whether training can affect the illusory correlation. Materials used by Chapman and Chapman (1969) were used. Attempts were made to influence the illusory correlation by providing a simulated training session. Training was no more effective than nontraining in reducing this phenomenon. This is consistent with Chapman and Chapman (1969).…

Investigated attitudes of undergraduate students toward sexual and nonsexual extramarital involvements and explored correlates of these attitudes. Results indicated that a sizeable majority of the students were opposed to extramarital sexual involvement, while the majority also reported they would find several nonsexual extramarital behaviors…

Auditory discrimination of voiceless fricatives was studied in 200 Ss between the ages of four and six and one-half years. (Author)

Adolescents' perceptions of parental behavior (parental control, maternal love and control, and maternal hostility and autonomy) was shown to discriminate among juvenile offenders and nonoffenders. (Author/CM)

Roles of psychologists as forensic specialists in psychiatric hospitals that specialize in patients of the criminal justice system are discussed. Describes dual role of psychologists in forensic hospitals and pertinent issues that are confronted. Emphasis is given to responsibilities psychologists have, to patients and to society. (Author)

Children aged 48 - 77 months were given experience in either color oddity or nominal class sorting prior to a transfer task that tested their ability to apply the oddity rule ("which one doesn't belong") to three picture arrays for which solution was based on nominal class membership. (RH)

This study was designed to investigate the effect of intonation on the auditory sequential memory spans of children normal in language development and those with delay. Analysis indicated that intonation as a cue did not facilitate recall of monosyllabic nouns presented in sequences of two, three, four, and five words. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the "real" and "ideal" leadership behavior of school business managers as perceived by board members, superintendents, business managers, and principals-supervisors in 11 Ohio school districts. (Author/SJL)