Main purpose of this study is to demonstrate a control procedure which allows the researcher to investigate behaviors which are lawfully related to charity stimuli and assess the influence of uncontrolled variables in charity situations. (Author)

Successful instructional programs are shaped through teachers' understanding of student attitudes. This study indicates that this understanding may be lacking in today's high schools. (Editor)

Test format can influence test performance as well as the nature and extent of general classroom achievement. (Authors)

Study was designed to provide further evidence on the speed of development of the acquired distinctiveness and equivalence effects during the transfer task. (Author)

Videotapes of two 17-month old children -- each child sometimes described as a boy and sometimes as a girl -- were shown to 85 adult middle-class subjects, who rated attributes of the children on questionnaires containing sex role items. (Authors/RY)

Young children's iconic storage is longer than that of older children and adults but young children process the information in iconic storage relatively slowly. (Authors)

Experiment studied the effectiveness of social reinforcement by a model who demonstrated varying degrees of commitment to the norm of giving or social responsibility. (Authors)

Middle-class teachers were significantly more permissive and less puritanical in outlook, took more pleasure in the emotional aspects of teacher-pupil relationships, and showed less authoritarian attitudes toward children than did lower-class teachers. (Author/MB)

Forty-nine Ss learned a unidimensional concept with a six-dimensional stimulus set. Instructions specified the 12 possible unidimensional concepts, and the response on each trial was to give confidence ratings to each of the 12 corresponding hypotheses. (Author)

This paper reports on the economic returns to investment in education in a large number of countries and attempts to trace patterns that might exist between the returns to education and other socio-economic characteristics of the countries involved. (Author/RY)