The main objective of the present investigations was to determine whether or not young human infants see the physical spectrum in a categorical fashion as human adults and animals who possess color vision regularly do. (Author)

The technique of priming was used to study the nature of the mental representations generated by color names. (Editor)

Is the perception of velocity determined by the prior discrimination of spatial and temporal distances? Two experiments sought to answer this question by comparing the discriminabilities of moving stimuli varied in spatial extent, temporal duration, or in redundant combinations of both variables. (Editor)

Role clarity was examined in terms of its relationship with personal outcomes and organizational effectiveness. Organizational level as moderator of such relationship was also investigated. Hypotheses based on prior research were confirmed. Role clarity was positively related to perceptions of job satisfaction, personal influence, organizational…

In two experiments Ss (16 undergraduate students in the first, 14 in the second) listened to a sentence containing a brief tone, then wrote out the sentence and marked the location of the tone. (Author/SBH)

Thirty-one retarded Ss (average age ten years), homogeneous with respect to MA, CA, and IQ were grouped according to their nonegocentric, intermediate, or egocentric performance on a criterion role-taking task. (Author)

Investigated was the ability of 76 children (16 siblings of retarded children, 27 students in integrated and 33 students in segregated fifth grade classrooms) to take a retarded child's role. (CL)

The span of apprehension (a measure of the amount of information processed simultaneously from a brief visual display) was studied in two experiments involving 40 normal and learning disabled boys (ages 6-11 years). (Author/DLS)

It is argued in this paper that American blacks and whites use words and concepts which have the same apparent connotative meaning but not the same context. (Author/GC)

Reports a series of experiments that give evidence for retention of information about color in very short-term visual memory, commonly termed "iconic memory". (Author)

Relationships of job satisfaction and job productivity to work values of beginning workers who graduated from public vocational education programs were investigated. Workers with intrinsic work value orientation seem to be more satisfied with their job and are more productive than are those with extrinsic work value orientation. (Author)

Describes a study of certain professional functions and characteristics of financial aid directors in a metropolitan area as seen by themselves and the college or university presidents and deans. The close congruence of ratings is remarkable. (Author)

Two studies were conducted that explored observers' perceptions of responsibility of a victim for her involvement in a premeditated crime. Male and female college students listened to tapes of a purported victim describing a crime (either a rape or a mugging). There was general tendency toward a sympathetic reaction pattern. (Author)

The nature of environmental perception and the relationship between perceived environmental change and environmental action are analyzed through four dimensions of environmental experience: the environment as external object, as representation of self, as embodiment of value, and as arena for action. (Author/MA)