The accuracy of the feeling of knowing (FOK) was assessed with regard to recall and recognition under three conditions: advanced or no advanced organizers; learned or non-learned information; and, sex differences. Twenty subjects learned paired-associates and were tested for recall and recognition accompanied by rating of FOK strength. The…

Social workers in generic practice are often uncertain about which social work method is most appropriate for a given case. This article suggests that evaluating role discrepancies can help practitioners determine whether to work toward personal or situational changes with clients. (Author)

The model describes the clients' impression-formation process, describes changes in client impressions as therapy progresses, and suggests the relevance of client impressions for therapy outcome. An attempt at empirical validation by using a clinical population lent some support to certain aspects of the proposed model. (Author)

Used a modification of Elkind's Picture Integration Test to investigate kindergarten children's perceptual centration in a composite and component picture recognition task. (JMB)

Two experiments with 18-week-old infants employed an interference paradigm to study infant visual memory for faces. (Author/JMB)

The study examined whether spontaneous variations in the frame of reference occurring over time have a more substantial effect on haptic mental rotation abilities of four blindfolded sighted subjects than of four adventitiously blind subjects. Results indicated the mental rotation functions for the two groups were virtually identical. (Author/DB)

A high-amplitude sucking procedure, with synthesized female speech, was used to ascertain the effects of fundamental frequency, amplitude, and duration on discrimination of polysyllabic sequences. Results suggest that the exaggerated suprasegmentals of infant-directed speech may function as a perceptual catalyst, focusing the infant's attention on…

Infants were tested for their discrimination of changes in the melodic contour (direction of successive pitch changes) of brief melodies in the context of discernible variations in key or interval size. (PCB)

Evaluates infants less than 1 week of age in a habituation-recovery paradigm for evidence of ability to detect an invariant identity or nonidentity relationship between components of a visual stimulus. (Author/NH)

Nearly every work of John Dewey's presupposes a well-thought-out, well-organized theory of the nature of consciousness. This paper sketches the development of Dewey's theory of consciousness. (MT)

Male and female nonparent adults rated tape-recordings of initial, middle, and final 10-second segments of pain and hunger cries on four 7-point Likert-type scale items describing how urgent, arousing, aversive, and sick cry segments sounded. Results suggest that different segments of cries resulting from the same stimulus provide different…

Presents a multidimensional model for cross-cultural counseling based on perceptual psychology concepts. The major premise is that the effectiveness of cross-cultural counseling is mutually dependent upon the counselor's and the client's perceptions of each other and of the counseling process itself. Outlines propositions suggesting directions for…

Ten kindergarteners with no known communication problems were given 10 sets of the "Repetition Task," a procedure used to assess auditory perception, over a span of 5 days. Results suggest the possibility that differences between dysphasic and normal children on the "Repetition Task" may result from differences in perceptual learning. (Author/CL)

An experiment on 15 dyslexic and 23 carefully matched control subjects (10- to 12-year-old males), examining their ability to maintain standing posture with eyes open and closed and with standard and tandem foot placement, revealed no differences under any condition tested and no differences in use of visual information to maintain their posture.…