The development of concepts of both the mind and brain is examined in subjects from preschool age through adulthood. While young children begin with undifferentiated conceptions of the mind and brain, in subsequent developments these concepts are differentiated along ontological and functional lines. (Author/RH)

Three studies compared effects of different rhythmic contexts on order judgments of targets embedded in auditory patterns designed to manifest auditory stream segregation. The magnitude of the captor effect varied with temporal predictability of flanking and/or target tones. A pairwise rhythm was likely to improve judgments by facilitating…

Two studies are reported in which the relationship between sound blending and auditory closure and reading performance (word analysis skills, oral reading, and silent reading) was explored in learning disabled youngsters (6 to 11 years old). (Author)

This paper presents a scoring procedure for sex-role orientation reflecting how similar an individual is to androgynous, undifferentiated, masculine, and feminine sex-role types. The profile scores are reasonably reliable, consistent with a widely used typological scoring procedure, and permit finer comparisons between individuals with different…

Twenty-one normally developing 3-year-old children were tested on two approximate consonant contrasts, "rake-lake" and "wake-rake," and a control contrast, "wake-bake." The children showed very accurate perceptions of minimal pairs. Children who did not yet articulate "r" or "l" appropriately showed somewhat less consistent perception than…

Reality monitoring concerns the ability to distinguish knowledge that an individual has produced internally (through reasoning, imagination, etc.) from knowledge that was obtained through experience (or "externally"). A model of reality monitoring is proposed and discussed. (JKS)

Results showed that the overall performance of the conductive loss group on the test battery was significantly lower than that of the normal control group. Performance of the experimental group was also significantly lower in specific auditory perceptual areas. (Author)

Investigated children's understanding of facial expressions such as anger, sadness, and disgust. Further study explored children's capacity to associate components of emotional expressions with the emotions to which they are related. (Author/RH)

Results showed that the two-chair dialog applied at a split produced more depth of experiencing than did focusing plus emphatic reflection. Both treatments produced significantly greater reported shifts in awareness and progress than the no-treatment controls. (Author)

The relationship between children's concepts of life and their judgments and revisions of sentences with violations of animacy restrictions was examined. (Author/MP)

An investigation was conducted to observe the effects of hearing aids on the ability of 20 blind veterans to localize white noise. In all cases, Ss performed more poorly on a localization task while wearing a hearing aid. (Author)

From the results of this pilot study it was suggested that intellectual abilities of epileptic children as measured by the verbal WISC and visual perception as measured by the Frostig are both influenced by the same contingencies. (Author)

Concludes that television viewing and adolescent audiences' perceptions of program reality are strongly related. (FL)

Concludes that advertising agency personnel frequently follow the standard of immediate consequences when deciding how to act. (FL)

Children with central auditory processing deficiencies often experience extreme learning difficulty within the educational environment. To augment the training these children may receive from the school speech-language pathologist, and to further enhance these children's learning capabilities, a list of classroom management suggestions is…