The Native American during the 200 years, to be celebrated by the Bicentennial, as protrayed in literature (particularly Mark Twain's) is discussed. (NQ)

In this commentary on Matthew Inglis' "Three Worlds and the Imaginary Sphere" (see EJ1106688), David Tall develops the theme that the building of theories is not an easy process. A theory in progress is a particularly delicate creation. Theories do not appear fully formed. There is a period of exploration and incubation that precedes the…

An exploratory study investigated preoperational children's understanding of the fictional movie character E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial). Of 40 participating children (ages 40 to 66 months), 85 percent indicated they had seen the movie. Data were collected according to an interview method, and responses were recorded on audiotape, transcribed, and…

The use of hypnosis in a pediatric setting has the potential for yielding effective results. Obstacles to its use are inappropriate training of psychologists in pediatric psychology, resistance to hypnosis from the pediatricians and mental health professionals, fragmented communication, and constant demand for space and time. Success of hypnosis…

The paper reports on two experiments in Braille learning which compared blind and sighted subjects on the immediate recall of haptically-examined Braille symbols. In the first study, sighted subjects (N=64) haptically examined each of a set of Braille symbols with their preferred or nonpreferred hand and immediately recalled the symbol by drawing…

Pulsation threshold (PT) masking was used to assess frequency resolution among infants 3 and 6 months of age and adults. The masker intensity at which the pulsing probe becomes indistinguishable from a physically continuous probe is the PT. A measure of frequency resolution can be obtained by examining the effects of masker frequency on the PT. In…

This report describes the psychological profile of a police officer who suffers from three dimensions of emotional complication: combat post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), alcoholism, and role immersion. Each of the three dimensions is discussed separately, followed by a discussion of their interaction and unification. It is noted that alcohol…

Trait psychology, psycho-dynamics, situationism, and interactionism, the four basic models of personality, are summarized; controversies they have generated and relevant research are discussed. Special emphasis is placed on interactional psychology as a model of personality theory and research. Controversial issues of personality such as…

The purpose of this research was to examine 18- to 30-month-old children's use of scripts for representing common events. A script is defined as a model that specifies the roles and props appropriate to an event and identifies a sequence of acts for achieving the goal defined by the event. Two aspects of script knowledge were investigated: (1) the…

The need to make conceptual decisions, as well as to judge what is thus brought into the domain of art as good or poor art, is unavoidable. This paper was designed to dramatize these facts and show some of the basic problems encountered in the attempt to do so. (Author/RK)

The capabilities of child psychiatrists and the relevance of their services are explained. (GW)

Examines the role of the journalist in preparing the various student publications and discusses the difficulties facing the reporter trying to find a logical and honest approach to reporting the news. (RB)

Observers monocularly viewed a sereis of perspective drawings varying in size of space and boundary height-distance relations. Results supported the hypothesis that perception of openness-enclosure of architectural space is determined by the relation of boundary height to boundary distance and is independent of actual size of space. (DT)