Adults with different sex-role identities rated likability of male and female stimulus persons. Under some conditions, all female subjects and feminine males made more polar ratings of opposite-sex stimulus persons. Under other conditions, masculine males rated male stimulus persons more negatively than female stimulus persons. (Author)

Analyses failed to confirm the matching model. Superiority of treatment effects relative to the controls was obtained, with rational restructuring emerging as a referred treatment. (Author)

Demonstrates why analogy exercises are useful in developing both vocabulary and conceptualization. (JT)

Subjects read a text concerning a new computer programing language, with an advance organizer given either before or after reading. On a recall test, there were different patterns of performance. Results suggested that the locus of the effect was at encoding rather than retrieval. (Author/GDC)

Four propositions concerning the cognitive structures of technological thought and liberalism are analyzed and the influences of these structures on the socializing role of public education are discussed. (JD)

This study involved the construction of a theory and scoring manual for assessing the developmental stages of individuals' concepts of marriage. Four stages (Magical, Idealized Conventional, Individualistic, and Affirmational) were identified. Reliability was acceptable. Correlations with age, schooling, ego development, and years of marriage…

Compares the effects of sex stereotyping and non-sex stereotyping in the use of narrators for instructional videotape materials designed for nursing students. All variables but gender of narrator were controlled, and no effects on learning were found using male and female voices. (Author/BK)

Canadian children follow an apparent sequence in the development of a concept of nationality from a verbal level of understanding of geographical relationships (beginning about age six), to an ability to demonstrate spatial relationships, then to an understanding of one's nationality, at about age 10. There are important educational implications.…

The effects of nonexamples on the acquisition of the geometrical concept of semiregular polyhedra were examined. Results favored the treatments containing both examples and nonexamples. (TG).

This article discusses an audiovisual method of teaching basic economic decision making and personal money management to children in the intermediate grades (4-6). (CJ)

Strategies for adapting instructional support and learning incentives were applied separately and in combination to a college-level lesson on mathematical rules. Adaptations were based on indiviual students' pretest scores. Adaptation of support improved performance significantly when compared with standard support. Incentive effects, however,…

Understanding of the principle of verticality was tested by having 246 sixth-grade students draw a pendulum on pictures of an abstract shape similar to a steeple. Girls performed more poorly than boys. Verticality was apparently much better understood by subjects than horizontality, also tested to provide a comparison. (Author)

Discusses conceptualization in relation to technology education. Includes an evaluative instrument to assess instructional models. (JOW)

The author describes an engineering and architecture course for junior high school students. It is a nonmathematical approach to understanding why buildings and bridges stand up and, basically, covers the same content as that of an architecture course he offers to Columbia University graduate students. (Author/KC)

Pleasant imagery relieves pain and may account for much of the effectiveness of stress inoculation training. Women who used imagery controlled their pain better; women who did not use imagery had longer tolerance when they heard pain conceptualized as a multistage process. Self-instruction did not affect pain control. (Author)