Notes that diseases affect health and functional status of patients in different ways and have variable impacts on family caregivers. Using hip fracture, dementia, and stroke as examples, illustrates how physical, social, psychological, and cognitive disabilities place different demands on caregivers. (Author)

Investigated the perceived age of people employed in various occupations. Results suggest certain occupations are perceived as occupied by relatively young individuals and others by older workers. Subjects' perceptions of the age of people employed in various occupations were found to be in agreement with the actual age of those workers.…

Discusses research that may broaden understanding of how music of other styles and cultures is perceived and remembered. Experiments examined serve to isolate similarities and differences that exist across musical cultures and characterize their psychological effects and to study perception of compositional styles in Western music outside the…

Outdoor education is not merely about learning outdoor skills; it should also involve self-reflective activities. Meditation is a technique used for self-reflection, has many proven psychological and physiological benefits, and would be a good addition to any wilderness program. Research has shown that the psychological benefits of meditation…

Previous research dealing with the question of children's understanding of time (in particular their frame of mind which is in touch with the past) is reviewed. Findings from the various studies show that children do not develop a sense of historical time in a predictable way; therefore, the way history is taught to them needs to be reexamined.…

Investigates the effects of qualitative and quantitative factors on the perception of mechanical causality through a photographic animation technique. (MB)

Adjective Word Sort research into descriptors of managerial groups compared perceptions of business, industrial, and public utility executives by psychologists and other executives; psychologists' perceptions of military officers and government administrators; and training directors as viewed by members of the American Society for Training and…

This article is a bold attempt at delineation of the perceptual-motor domain and a taxonomy of perception that uses the well known cognitive and affective domain taxonomies as models." (Editor)