Explores the relationship between Piaget's work on awareness and aspects of language development, pointing out continuities and discontinuities between the two areas of development. (Author/RH)

Investigates the ability of four-, seven-, and ten-month-old infants to perceive and base novelty responses on correlations among perceptual attributes in a category-like context. In a habituation-dishabituation paradigm, ten-month-old infants clearly responded on the basis of the correlation among attributes, while four- and seven-month-old…

Discusses a study that provided comparative evidence of male and female responses using word pairs to describe perceptions of female roles expressed through dress. (JOW)

Gifted students can perform a variety of roles in groups, and it is important for career choice and satisfaction that the role chosen be a natural one. Gifted students may function best and contribute most in the role of exemplar or eccentric rather than in more traditionally conceived leadership roles. (CL)

This study was undertaken to determine whether context independence (the degree to which the phonetic categorization of a given stimulus is independent of the context in which it occurs) and phonetic mediation (the degree to which discrimination appears to be based on category labels) are independent aspects of categorical perception. (Author/LC)

Describes the reproductive cycle (menarche, menstrual cycle, fertility and contraceptive use, and menopause) as experienced by two groups of contemporary Navajo women. Eighty Navajo women, 40 traditional and 40 acculturated, participated in the 1978 research project which focused on influences of menopause. (ERB)

Suggests that many special education resource teachers are confused relative to their responsibilities, if any, for serving nonhandicapped pupils in public schools. Suggests that regular education-special education cooperative planning effort can be negatively affected unless the issue of serving nonhandicapped pupils is satisfactorily resolved…

A newly-appointed principal describes the responses of schoolchildren, and how the responses vary according to age and experience, as the children adjust to her presence after the departure of a beloved predecessor. (Author/MLF)

The article looks at the roles volunteers serve in providing services for the severely disabled. Examples of specific cases illustrate the points made by the author. (SB)

A data analysis model is proposed for studies concerning attribution theory. The model is based on the author's previous work in the area of trait view theory. (JKS)

In three experiments, sighted college students tried to learn the names of the first 10 symbols of the braille alphabet. In Experiments 1 and 2, visual examination of the symbols enhanced learning. In Experiment 3, similar results were obtained when standard size braille symbols were used during the study trials. (Author)

Presents study designed to further evaluate the nature of spoken-language comprehension under conditions of varying perceptual load by manipulating different comprehension conditions. Investigates effects of subsidiary task paradigms on course of simultaneous comprehension processing. Argues that these can only be used when accompanied with probes…

In teaching we develop a language of practice related to the student's discipleship toward wholeness, which is also a depth hermeneutic or interpretation of his self-formative process. In short, when we truly teach art, we are mediating body-mind integration and self-actualization in and through art. (Author)

All Ss' accuracy decreased with increasing task difficulty. Accuracy of nonretarded Ss did not differ as a function of visual status. Blind retarded Ss were more accurate than were sighted retarded Ss. (Author)

Reviews the theories of the founder of "general semantics," Alfred Korzybski, who believed that social conflict would be reduced by the study of how the structure of language affects our perceptions of the world and by the development of new language habits to overcome the limitations of verbal symbols. (Editor/SJL)