The influence hypothesis argues that the perceptual superiority of words is due to S's opportunity to use the redundancy in words for making perceptual inferences, while the Unitization hypothesis argues that words are more perceptible because there are fewer units to process in a word than in a nonword. (Author)

Four classes of first grade children produced a drawing a day for ten days. The length of the head, trunk, and legs was measured to the nearest milimeter. The children clearly magnified head length and somewhat less clearly diminished leg length. (WY)

Described is a model for development of visual perception abilities in learning disabled children. (CB)

Aim of this study is to provide a qualitative and descriptive picture of the self concept configurations of high, medium and low achievers. Charts. (Author)

The refusal of schools to give serious consideration to individuals and their self-conceived roles until school goals are achieved causes those children who cannot meet these goals to see themselves as failures and become discipline problems. (CK)