An extended readiness unit plan for beginning first graders who demonstrated a limited degree of readiness in kindergarten is provided. The unit theme is the five senses, and the following sequence of presentation is used: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Visual-perception activities receive the most emphasis. Included in procedures for…

Because of the increasing use of color in instructional materials at the level of the primary grades, the Health Service Department of the Denver Public Schools became interested in investigating the color vision of 5- and 6-year-olds. A project was established to create color-vision testing methods and to use those methods to ascertain incidence…

Talks presented by Doris Johnson and Regina Cicci at an institute for teachers of the educationally handicapped are summarized and include identification and remediation of auditory receptive language disorders, disorders of spelling and written language, an analysis of reading methods, an analysis check list, disorders of quantitative thinking,…

Project SEE was designed as a structured kindergarten and first grade program for the development of visual perception. Short daily lessons were given to an entire kindergarten class simultaneously and were centered around a set of 40 cards containing various lines and shapes. Children were asked to analyze and describe these elements on the…

This study presents results from an experiment designed to assess whether the employment of teaching approaches consistent with the auditory or visual perceptual strengths of disadvantaged boys would facilitate their ability to learn and retain a list of unknown words. Two groups of 20 pupils were identified from a sample of 105 subjects. One…

Investigating the effects of marijuana on human psychological functioning, this study differs from previous research in two ways: 1) it is concerned with relatively complex cognitive processes; 2) it has a theoretical rationale. The general hypothesis of the study states that marijuana will impair its user's ability to form and use abstract…

The relationshp between success in learning to read and success in drawing tasks that used the same varieties of perception needed in learning to read was investigated. Ten tasks involving perceiving presented forms, memorizing them, and reproducing them in drawing were given to 150 children. These tasks were related to position in space,…

Photographs of visual phenomena are presented to stimulate an awareness of the visual transition between the initial discovery of sights and their utilization in creative works. The visual phenomena are grouped into four units: changes on the surface of objects, perceptions of form, variations in perceptions due to the organization or association…

Human recognition behavior is influenced by the phenomenon of shape constancy, which occurs when the shape of an object is correctly perceived regardless of the orientation of the object in space. The research reported here tests the validity of the shape-slant invariance hypothesis, a theoretical formulation of the phenomenon of shape constancy.…

This 115-page annotated bibliography contains material on perceptual motor development. The introductory portion of the bibliography presents general reading on perception, learning, and development. The first portion contains annotated works by six specific authors. The second portion presents works grouped under the following headings: a)…

This paper reports on some recent data which deal with attitudes toward sex role as held by male and female, black and white college students. Its purpose is to describe rather than to test hypotheses, but some general conclusions can be drawn from the results. The data were obtained from the questionnaire responses of 300 college students…

Presents findings of a study on the visual perceptual dimension of cognitive structure as it relates to achievement in college biology. Results indicate a possibility of using visual recall probes for the early detection of learning differences related to achievement. (SL)

Thirty learning disabled elementary grade students were given the Flowers Auditory Test of Selective Attention and the Goldman Fristoe Woodcock Auditory Selective Attention Test. Weak but significant correlations between the two tests of auditory selective attention suggested that the tests do not measure exactly the same constructs. (Author/DB)

Reports on three experiments that investigated why young children's perceptions of bimodal speech are less influenced by the visual component of speech than adults' perceptions are. Results argue in favor of the explanation that children are poorer lipreaders than adults. (HOD)