Human infants' discrimination of changes in internal and external elements of compound visual patterns was investigated in four experiments employing a familiarization-novelty paradigm in which visual reinforcing patterns were presented contingent upon rate of high-amplitude nonnutritive sucking. (Author/JH)

The ability of 3-month-old infants to discriminate novel components of a pre-familiarized stimulus was assessed using an operant paradigm. Subjects were 20 infants; adult judgments were taken from 15 college students. (Author/JH)

Discussed is the role of the psychologist in serving handicapped children and their families. (SB)

In the artistic process the artist verifies and exemplifies his or her perceptions and conception of their work. This paper discusses the model of the artistic process which describes the repertoire of perceptual clues that the artist develops. The rationale for the development of the model is for the art teacher to be able to explain in simple…

Presents five teaching techniques designed to provide a feeling of acceptance for female students in the elementary classroom. (RB)

Supports auditory research which clarly demonstrates that auditory perception is adversely affected by noise. (Author/RB)

A persuasion scale assessing counselor conviction and client agreement was used to rate 900 counselor statements. The 24 highest rated and 15 lowest rated persuasive statements were fed into a graphic level recorder. Differences in the graphs of high- and low- persuasive statements indicated that loudness is a characteristic of persuasion. (Author)

Perceptual differences were investigated between 50 college students who were non-drug users and 50 hippies who used LSD. The major hypothesis predicted was that hippies would score differently from college students in a specific direction on each of the perceptual tasks. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a field experiment designed to test the effects of manipulating several elements of an operative level performance appraisal system. (Author)

The role of the public health nurse is changing because of a parallel development in medicine and public health. The rapid advance of bio-medical knowledge in the last few decades has created much broader horizons for these health professionals. (KP)

This article presents a challenge to behavioral scientists and mental health facilitators to rethink their acceptance of stereotyped and assigned sex roles. (Author)